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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you need to spend less time online and more time talking to your neighbours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Again you are missing the point.

I know many great individuals, it's the masses I fear

You won't know the masses by knowing a few people. You learn by studying history and looking at statistics

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The masses" are just individuals. You sound like a 20 year old who just discovered atheism and started reading the paper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm actually quite older.... And as you get older you'll see how the masses do not act as their individual parts

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's no fucking antenna that pops out of people's heads and overrides their thoughts when considered in abstract. That's Murdoch rag level of boomer bullshit.

Idk what broken arse society you feel like you're from but humans everywhere work towards the collective all the time. You try to come up with some derranged "actually we don't support the vulnerable" because propaganda about costs is written about and yet even in the face of that people continue to not attack each other in the streets. Oh capitalism is cannabalism is it? fucking derranged take but even so you just conveniently ignore how that system is enforced by a tiny minority and billions of people struggle against it or try to tame it. Oh climate change inaction huh? yes sure if you judge us all by the fucked up leaders of states but what about all the protests? what about all the climate scientists? The journalists writing about? what about the fact that greenwashing is an effective marketing strategy?

Like I'm sorry that Shazza and Bazza on the street don't know how to tackle massive structural issues but it is absolutely a lobotomised take to think that means they're not decent creatures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a well documented sociological phenomena.. maybe read a book before raging

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not raging I'm Australian.