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> I’m just shocked at how many people today have grown into learned helplessness and think that the system is so bad and irreparable that they need to vandalize
by pmachinery 6y ago
> I’m just shocked at how many people today have grown into learned helplessness and think that the system is so bad and irreparable that they need to vandalize and protest in cities for months.
It's quite right to be shocked so many people protested, because it's a strong signal that there's something drastically wrong with the system; something that nobody has any problem understanding and accepting when protests occur in other countries.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoAren’t the only countries where people don’t protest in cities for months totalitarian ones? Having protests seems to me to be a sign of a free country.
- jayko 6y agoOutrage is contagious. It doesn't help that politicians bait people into getting outraged (Trump on the right, Sanders & AOC likes on the left). Build enough outrage and people will protest, doesn't mean it's justified or rational. It's very easy to get brainwashed into believing that the inherent unfairness of life is somehow a product of 'the system'. Do you know who gets outraged and 'protest' regularly? Children.