I’ve been listening to a great podcast series about Titanic. (This will come around, bear with me.)
One of the things mentioned in the latest episode is that it didn’t take long for conspiracy theories to develop about the sinking, that it had to have been done on purpose. Because there are a lot of people who didn’t want to believe the truth: that it was possible for the largest luxury liner ever built could go to the bottom of the north Atlantic in two and a half hours on its maiden voyage on accident.
The uncomfortable truth about this last election is that, yes, enough people willfully voted for fascism to put this administration in place. The United States is much further away from the ideal we’d all been led to believe it has strived to be, so far that it’s clear that it’s not even striving for that ideal anymore. That truth is so unconscionable to some people that accepting a conspiracy theory is more palatable.
That truth is so unconscionable to some people that accepting a conspiracy theory is more palatable.
It’s really hurtful to the mind of a kind-hearted person. It says a lot of dark things about humanity in general that this nation was so easily steered into this. It’s valid to want to reject it, but I’d rather live in the dark reality and face it than do like the MAGAts and retreat to the safety of fantasy and fiction that it just has to be a conspiracy to explain how so many people are so terrible. Nope, humans are really that fucked.
It’s really hurtful to the mind of a kind-hearted person.
The messed up part is that the people who voted for this think they’re doing good. There are a few moral monsters of course, but most of the people who participate in historic crimes think they’re helping.
I’ve been listening to a great podcast series about Titanic. (This will come around, bear with me.)
One of the things mentioned in the latest episode is that it didn’t take long for conspiracy theories to develop about the sinking, that it had to have been done on purpose. Because there are a lot of people who didn’t want to believe the truth: that it was possible for the largest luxury liner ever built could go to the bottom of the north Atlantic in two and a half hours on its maiden voyage on accident.
The uncomfortable truth about this last election is that, yes, enough people willfully voted for fascism to put this administration in place. The United States is much further away from the ideal we’d all been led to believe it has strived to be, so far that it’s clear that it’s not even striving for that ideal anymore. That truth is so unconscionable to some people that accepting a conspiracy theory is more palatable.
It’s really hurtful to the mind of a kind-hearted person. It says a lot of dark things about humanity in general that this nation was so easily steered into this. It’s valid to want to reject it, but I’d rather live in the dark reality and face it than do like the MAGAts and retreat to the safety of fantasy and fiction that it just has to be a conspiracy to explain how so many people are so terrible. Nope, humans are really that fucked.
Much like the night sky, humanity is largely a dark thing, speckled with occasional bright spots.
Humanity is Banana Joe from the Amazing World of Gumball:
Agreed. There’s enough true conspiracies, we don’t need to make fake ones
The messed up part is that the people who voted for this think they’re doing good. There are a few moral monsters of course, but most of the people who participate in historic crimes think they’re helping.
Always upvote SeaLab
Not really an accident persay but rather a combination of hubris and bad choices made or of hubris.