Rant no time to title

There’s a guy on my Facebook who often tells me what “the left” are doing or what they want. It involves everything bad you can possibly imagine. “And then they call me a fascist” Why do I keep him on my Facebook? Gotta keep plugged in with these people. There are people telling me similar bullshit about “the right”. It is getting worse and worse at the moment, this enforced polarisation. Remember critical thinking? It is so dead people can make nostalgic jokes about this crazy thing we used to do in the nineties where we looked at both sides of things and then made our own minds up. That doesn’t happen anymore, and unless we keep people like this on our socials who we almost always disagree with on many levels, we forget that there are other perfectly nice people who are absolutely convinced of opposite interpretations of the world.

This chap was on the march yesterday – there was a “we are scared of foreigners” march in London yesterday. There was one thing he wrote about it on his socials afterwards that got me thinking about this whole perspective problem we have at the moment.

I am paraphrasing but: “The mainstream media is telling you there were only about 100000 people here but I can tell you it was between 2 and 2 and a half million!”

He’s been in a crowd. It’s a big crowd. He wants to feel that his voice is the loudest voice. He knows he isn’t alone in his fear of the other. But: his perspective is shot.

Flat Earth. Because we cannot comprehend global physics.

Space Denial. Because we cannot comprehend celestial scale.

Evolution Denial. Because we cannot understand time.

Loads of these thinking fails come from an inability to have perspective.

Yes we are small little human people flapping around in this system we have all made up together. It was made up so long ago it is impossible to comprehend how even that has come about. We look at the edges of that and the creation of that, of society, and our brains go a bit burny because it is hard to see it because we are just tiny tiny blots of disease in the biosphere but we’ve learnt how to talk and write and make signs and shit like that but we can only have what perspective we have been able to learn, and we often learn best from hardship.

So he is in a big crowd of people who think like him and he thinks: “This must be the biggestest crowd forever of people who think like I,” and he feels validated in his thinkses but the “bad left” will do lying on him and he must tell us all the truthings.

We are all little tiny tiny tiny little people. But we have to try to think biggerer than the easy thinkies.

Yes I know the march wasn’t “we are scared of foreigners,” I was being glib. But it was a kind of “we all stand together against stuff we’ve been told to hate”. And that changes from person to person but there are trans and wokies and brown people involved in that.

“THERE WERE MILLIONS OF US.”

There weren’t but you are entrenched, mate. And you are indoctrinated. Most of what you generate is amplification and I bet at least half of the stuff you amplify originates in a building in St Petersburg. Because it is just gonna keep pulling us apart from each other as we dismiss those who are on the “wrong” side. Lefties do it too about “the right”. It’s nice to feel part of a big club. To be part of a millionty people but the wokes will lie it is smaller.

I am fucking scared now of where things are going. We are not clever enough to handle the social media algorithm and it is pushing us all into these little bubbles that we think are bigger than they are. “And if the mainstream media tells you it is just a little bubble they are lying cos I know what it feels like to me.”

God. Anyway I don’t know where I’m going with this it just makes me sad. There’s this thing I’ve noticed where people who don’t like “the left” are also desperate to tell everyone how they are victims. Aaaargh it is just getting worse and worse, and then Musk in his video basically trying to get the ball rolling to annex us as another state of America by telling people too dumb to see the endgame that we need to change how our political system works. Cos that’s what’ll happen for future “President for life” Heffalump.

This guy just made me see in that post the lack of perspective. The very very soft fragile tiny little vulnerable ME in the very heart of all the noise and hate and bluster that really really needs to feel as if what they are is validated and what they feel part of is the big safe thing please mummy.

Because if it is just a system we made up to try and stop us constantly murdering each other when we were just tribes in the stone age, if underneath the mask of society we are all capable of desperate things, that is too much to comprehend too. We’ve built this system for ages, it doesn’t work but it’s the one we’ve got.

I’m in the doghouse now for writing too long.. Haven’t read any of this back but I guess I’ll just click schedule and hope… Yikes.