I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.
(Ideally these stories should be presented in the form of poorly curated anthologies with the most generic titles imaginable, thereby rendering their contents impossible to identify or find later in life and leaving the affected individual wondering whether they dreamed the whole thing.)
Every time you catch yourself going, "Fuck, are humans just inherently evil and naturally inclined to selfishness and harm???" you HAVE to remember that that's literally a core ideal of Christianity.
So if it feels inescapable and like evidence of it is everywhere, whether at times or always, that might just because you're in a Western country where you're surrounded by Christians who believe that, fundamentally, in their worldview. And also they talk and make art about it all the time and run the vast majority of news outlets. And spent over a thousand years burning any art or texts that disagreed with them. Etc. etc.
If you're gonna come to as drastic and painful a conclusion as that, at least take the time first to make sure you're not working with biased evidence (surrounded by too many people and cultural products that believe original sin is real)
And if it turns out the feeling WAS partly the result of cultural Christianity, then hey, that's great news, because it means there's that much (and it really is SO MUCH) less evidence that humans inherently suck. Which is good, because we don't
I was recently reading Odyssey, and I noticed how important hospitality and charity was there... Except it was the same trick as Christianity - using gods to make it transactional.
Gods would pretend to be beggars and would punish mortals if they weren't generous to them or would mistreat them.
Personally, I'm pretty sure vast majority of people are evil and completely devoid of humanity. I'm disabled and not fit for work and only recently managed to get benefits after figuring out a hidden way to do it and getting a private diagnosis.
When things were bad, I was trying to find help but, in my communities, almost nobody would help and out of those who helped almost nobody would help more than once. It's really eye-opening when one is in need.
Also, my disability benefits are like 1/2 of minimum wage despite that I have to pay spend more for medicines, the voters in my country want disabled people to either die or rot in abject poverty. So, obviously, my country is filled with evil inhumans.
Christianity is just a trick to make evil people think that helping others is in their self-interest. "Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." is just an updated version of gods pretending to be beggars trick.
People in reblogs invent dozens of copes, but let's be honest, most of them are probably a part of the problem. The fact that no fit for work disabled people get forced into abject poverty or left to die is an objective proof that vast majority of people are evil.
I'm also a disabled person who's physically unable to work right now. Incidentally.
Personally, the severity of my current medical situation is very likely temporary, for which I am very lucky. But I will never be able to work the vast majority of jobs without society-wide accessibility changes, and I will never again be able to work a 9-5 schedule in my life. My disability prevents it. For the past 5 years, I have been physically unable to work like 90+% of jobs. My life history is painfully full of medical neglect and abuse.
And I still disagree.
The fact that disabled people are treated like shit is for a lot of reasons, which imo does not include the idea that people are inherently evil, but DOES include that a fuck ton of the foundational medical, psychology, and disability researchers from the 1800s up to like the 1970s (generously) was literally done by eugenicists and literal Nazis
And the governments who got to pass laws were (and in painfuly many cases still are) (with varying degrees of secrecy) chock full of eugenicists and Nazis
Eugenicists and Nazis spent most of the past 200+ years telling literally everyone that disability is caused by disabled people's inherent "uncleanliness" and "moral deficiencies" and "their own fault" and "what they deserve" and "you can't hide an ugly soul on your face" and "a blight on humanity" and other horrific and violent lies, and then passed thousands and thousands of eugenics laws and policies that we have not yet entangled...
Is far, far more of the reason that disabled people are treated like shit than anything else, at least these days in Western culture, imho
And far more provable.
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated
millions in the quest for a co-called "Master Race," and IBM aided
And I think it's premature to attribute the lack of support and care for disabled people to human nature instead of Big Pharma, drug companies, medical lobbyists, insurance companies, capitalism, billionaires, eugenics lobbyists, and unchecked corporate greed.
You don't have to agree with me. You probably won't; frankly, a lot of people have very real reason to think humans being evil is the case. That's not something I am in denial about. It's something I am trying to dedicate my life to help fix
(far, far easier said than done)
All of that is true - and also, personally, I would really like to at least try getting rid of billionaires, Nazis in government and medicine
More and some source links below the cut.
And regardless of the truth of human nature, I am so sorry for what you have been through and that people have treated you like that. None of I'm saying at all changes the fact that that was unfair, and I'm sure often cruel, and completely fucking sucks. I hate that for you and I'm so sorry
While, I'm at it, the US Supreme Court decisions (specifically Clarence Thomas's) are literally currently being funded by the massive personal fortune of a billionaire Nazi.
Look. I haven't lived your life, or anyone else's life.
But it has genuinely been my experience that the reason the vast majority of society treats disabled people like shit is all the lawmakers and doctors and police officers and billionaires who are (with varying degrees of secrecy or the total lack of thereof) eugenicists and/or Nazis
Ultimately, you are the only one who has lived your life. You are the only person who has seen and knows what you have seen and know. There are absolutely many painfully, painfully valid reasons to look at the world right now and come to that conclusion. Some people have had to live through a truly, unspeakably horrific amount of shit, and a great many of those people are disabled (many of them actually as a result of various horrific shit)
All of that is true.
And also:
At least for me, I would really like to least try banning billionaires and de-Nazi-fying our governments (esp but absolutely not limited to the US government), and ending for-profit health insurance, first. I think that would really genuinely change the world, and I'd like to see what kind of world we could build in the aftermath before deciding that humanity as a whole is evil
Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think it's particularly likely - I'm actually also a trained professional factchecker, in my offline life, so I did not come to my own beliefs on this quickly or easily or lightly
And still -
I'd like to keep trying to find out, first, before coming to such a brutal conclusion
My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)
This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.
This is a perfect time to read the brilliant and unforgettable graphic novel(s) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, about growing up in Iran during and after the Iranian Revolution, and the rise of the oppressive theocracy that persists to this day.
Both graphic novels are available free online (Persepolis vol. 1, Persepolis vol. 2)
It also was adapted to a wonderful film (co-directed and co-written by the author) which is available to watch for free on Sundance Now (sign up for the free trial)
every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...
i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post
You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.
This is how the system of white supremacy operates. The media is used 2 create stereotypes like blk on blk crime.They need black men to fill jail cells for the Prison Indstrial complex
You know what? I’m tired of this.
I do not know what exactly they are waiting for. I mean our government comes up with “reasons” to invade other countries, such as Syria, like their government is allegedly violating human rights or something like that. but… I mean for other countries, they do not even have to go deep to bomb the fuck out of this place, they can just look at our media. And this has been happening to people of color since the media has existed.
Did a research project on this in undergrad and the results are extremely alarming because it’s not just in imagery, it’s in language used even in the law making process and within our own communities in a completely different way than expected.
also saw some post earlier today about how gen z isn't doing cults anymore. That's simply not true. It's simply not true. There are actually more cults than ever and they are on the discord app. You don't understand. They are doing struggle sessions in fandom discourds
the reason that OP claimed there were no gen z cults was because there's no cheap real estate to have a compound on anymore which is such an annoying ass bsky.app millennial take like I can hear you smirking behind your latte. No. "second location" is an outdated model. people figured out how to leave all the time back then. Now your phone is the second location and leaving your Phone Cult is so much harder
Some cults I know have lots of gen z members, off the top of my head
redpill incels
their worse cousin, blackpilled incels
Zizians
Rationalism in general
extreme political movements in general (both the right and the purity culture obsessed, pro revolution left)
fandom purity culture
I know this isn't the focus of this post but it's important. There are scads and scads of well established cults like Mormonism, Quiverfull, etc, which are established enough to be seen as regular religions instead of high control groups. Many of these cults encourage their members to have a lot of kids, so while you may mostly hear from the people who left, for each one there's easily a dozen more who didn't leave. I know people my age (20s) who were raised in these cults and have siblings who are still invested in the cult.
"Wellness" influencers. "Beauty" influencers. "Fitness" influencers. "Finance" influencers. If they're on social media telling you they have secrets only they've unlocked and they're your only salvation, that only the few truly brilliant people can see their vision, that they're the only one holding the keys to the future you've been dreaming of, all you have to do is leave behind any friends or family that contradicts them, don't question, stop thinking for yourself, do everything they say, all for the low low price of your happiness-- they're a cult leader.
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