I’m surrounded by people who care more about Charlie Kirk than about Gaza, sometimes it’s hard not to believe that most people are drones or just horrendous people. I can’t even watch a video my colleague sent me on AI because it’s so western centric and anti-China and I can’t get past that to have a conversation about the other stuff. It’s so isolating and disconnecting.

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This is one of the most helpful essays I’ve ever read: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

    I guess to respond to your prompt more directly, it’s definitely in the direction of “horrendous people” rather than “drones,” not because of some inborn lack of character but because they have been raised in an environment that encourages them at every turn to be awful chauvinists and misanthropes. “When education is not liberatory, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor,” etc.