sintzu wrote:I've been living abroad nearly all my life due to my father's job so I didn't know how bad things were. I've always assumed Americans and people in the west had it better than most who live in other countries based on all the lecturing they do about human rights but my god was I wrong.
The most charitable way to address that cognitive dissonance is "hypocrisy". The less charitable way is "propaganda".
The most accurate though is "psychological projection". Meaning when someone who furiously preaches and preaches and preaches so much and so intensely fanatically about something as a psychological defense and coping mechanism in order to deflect suspicion away from their own guilt and culpability in going directly against exactly what it is that they're preaching the value of. Like Christian fundamentalist Pastors who go on and on and on about how evil and sinful being gay is when they themselves are fellating random dudes in the truck stop men's room every Saturday.
Or in the case of America, a nation that rants endlessly about freedom and democracy abroad, when it has long ago since eroded its own personal liberties for its regular citizens in the name of batshit paranoid fear over terrorism as well in catering to endless corporate greed and corruption as a result of corporate interests having long, long ago bought off the America political system and rendered it oligarchical (democracy only for the richest people) instead of a true democratic republic (democracy for the voices of the many, of the regular people).
sintzu wrote:No health care, live in debt to pay for education & live paycheck to paycheck just to pay your rent yet somehow we (I'm American by the way) have rights.
People in America, ordinary regular people mind you, have been talking about these problems and trying to address them via political advocacy for literally decades and decades and
decades now. What, did you think that THAT many people with NOTHING to gain from it were just somehow LYING about all this for all this time and all these years?
I'm slightly older than a lot of folks here, so I'm saying this from my own personal experience growing up around heavily engaged political activists in the U.S. since the 1980s, since the Reagan era. Its gotten
markedly worse since 9/11 granted; but on the whole overall, NONE of this is anything the least bit new. We've been fighting against this lopsided, broken political and economic system for far, far longer than I've been alive (and I'll be 34 in a few days time). People have been "woken" to and engaged with trying to fix these horrific problems since well many years long before the age of the internet, and its always immensely frustrating when people don't realize how long and how hard this fight against corporate corruption in the United States political and economic system has been raging on for.
I'm genuinely far beyond frustrated that its STILL taken so many people, even in the U.S. and even among those who are slammed hard against these problems day in and day out, so absurdly long to understand the reality and nature of those problems and to learn to not listen to the insane propaganda that mainstream American television and radio has fed to them about it for so many years now. The internet has certainly helped, but it also spreads just as much misinformation and muddies the waters as much as it does help. Hence the sort of "fake news" crisis that we're in right now. No one knows who to trust anymore or what information sources are "uncontaminated" by shady agendas.
End of the day, you just need a well-honed bullshit detector, and more than anything else a LOT of varied and harsh life experience to act as a teacher. A great deal of the reason this struggle has lasted for as long as it has with so many people not understanding how bad its been is pure and simple ignorance and people being sheltered by the bubbles of their own personal experience and not allowing themselves to view the world through the eyes of others... particularly others who've had a much rougher go of it than they have had.
"Empathy" in other words.
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Kunzait's Wuxia Thread
Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
I hope he's able to pull through this.
