RE: Why does Politics bring out the worst in so many people?
October 4, 2018 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2018 at 3:17 pm by Brian37.)
(October 4, 2018 at 11:00 am)Libertarian God Wrote: Perhaps this is because I have only been on this planet for 25 years so I have a small sample to go off of. Or perhaps it's because of platforms such as social media where we are bombarded with political messages 24 hours a day 365 days a year. For instance on Facebook. If I see a friend post something political I will usually think for a few seconds whether I want to comment on it. Most of the time I comment when something is setting the bull shit meter off. But when I do correct that person, I do it nicely and respectfully. It ends up turning into a 20 comment thread of a back and fourth of me using facts and the other person using feelings or outright non-sense. Then it usually results in that person calling me names. I've been called everything in the book: Cuck, socialist, Libtard, retard, dumbass, anti-american and so on. This is even the same thing when you attempt to debate strangers on a news feed on Facebook, or on a comment board on a website. Except since you have never met that person the attacks usually get a lot worse and more personal. But to be honest this is one of the reasons I have quit attempting to present the proper information. I try to be as unbiased as possible. But even when you do use facts that you know 110% fact are on your side, things don't go over well and you will NEVER change their mind. I have had this from both sides of the aisle. Mostly Trump supporters seem to be the most nasty in my experience, but I'm sure there are plenty on the left that are pretty bad. But it just seems Trump supporters, or at least the extreme ones are in a league of their own. The fucking psychopaths league.
Because most humans, no matter their geography, no matter their political or religious reasons, can't see the long term picture.
We evolved to socialize. And because of that our species evolved to form groups. It is hard for the majority of humans to see the long term picture, in that we are finite, and of the same time, and that we all need resources. Artificial labels such as race, religion, political views, class or economic views are mere excuses humans hide behind to avoid the reality that no matter how well we do, or where we end up, our ride ends.
There is not one king, not one dictator, not one hero, not one monster, or empathetic human, regardless of how they are viewed, that has an eternity.
Hitler and Stalin and Martin Luther King Jr, only represent what our species is capable of, and point of view. The finite reality most humans, good or bad, do not want to face, which THEY SHOULD, is that we are all finite. Heros and villains all occupy this rock. And no human lives forever. Politics and religion are horrible for our species as an objective filter because of our local and primal leanings.
If all 7 billion of us could at one time, go to the point of the earth viewed through the rings of Saturn, it could change our perspective.
Most humans do not want to face that we are not a separate species. Most humans rally around and defend what they grow up with, and that which is local. It can be great for local survival, but it does absolutely NOTHING in demonstrating the fact we are NOT a separate species.
