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Or, the propensity to discount ingenuity and capability and to inflate the usefulness of doom based messaging, never really changes and I now find it ineffectiv
by jvanderbot 2y ago
Or, the propensity to discount ingenuity and capability and to inflate the usefulness of doom based messaging, never really changes and I now find it ineffective and unmotivating.
And I will tell my kids (and you) that it's better to believe you can make positive changes than to try to bring about negative emotions in people all the time.
Don't tell me what to feel, show me what to do.
- jrflowers 2y agoI like this reasoning. It is like being sat at the computer in March of 2020 and posting “These predictions of a bad thing happening can not be accurate — I should know, I lived through the 1973 oil crisis” in that “nothing bad ever happens” is more fantastical than saying something bad might happen. We are quite literally living the aftermath of a Bad Thing that die-hard optimists were factually wrong about at the outset.
- jvanderbot 2y agoYou're not listening. I never said bad things won't happen. I said we can manage it with good examples of policies and experimentation rather than fear mongering. How can anyone object to that?