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31 Surefire Ways To Make Me Lose Interest In Your Thoughts About The World

Every day I interact with all sorts of people from all around the world and all across the political spectrum, and I learn a lot from those conversations. Over the years, though, I have learned that there are many people who just aren’t going to have anything worthwhile to say, because their worldviews are too clouded with confusion and bullshit for them to offer a lucid perspective on much of anything.

There are signs I look for to show me whether someone is not worth the time and energy it would take to interact with them, which allows me to use that time and energy more productively. Here they are in no particular order.

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Some make it easier than others. Addressing those who are new to me have become easier to place in a category. Where I once wasted time on attempting to debate with others, even after they became aberrant, I now recognize these people as though they are to far gone to waste my time on. And more likely didn't use the means towards a conclusion discovery or don't have the intellect to do so, and will not. They suffocate in developed indoctrination. I was suffocating myself in futile hope. I see the same symptoms in the NFL sports groups comments I participate in on facehack. Although highly relative to the political arena, that's another story.

Anyways, that is one of which I would add to her list. When someone becomes aberrant, the going history is that the chaos extends into their thought process also. It's simply a symptom that comes within a narcissistic like behavior within an automatic abruptness. It becomes a character trait as though it's embedded in the DNA. It comes in various levels, but the results are almost always the same. A person has to know their limits. Or be dragged down to the same same level as the madness they're facing.

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Answer 1

You know, what the big problem is was succinctly stated in that great work of mostly fiction thousands of years ago: with old age comes wisdom. The more knowledge, the more grief.

Answer 2

It’s mutual. I have no interest in Caitlin Johnstone, so it cancels out.

Answer 3

I also think there is a real generation gap here. I was in the army late 80's, born '67, so remember the USSR and subsequent dissolvement of the Warsaw Pact very clearly, the end of the cold war. I recall what life was like very clearly. Those born post 1991 have no idea.
The same can be said about prior to 11/ 9 (11th of Sept) 2001 very clearly and how the world changed with the Patriot Act and war on terror. Those born after this have no idea.
So a new normal was achieved post fall of the USSR and again after the Sept 11 attacks. But this new normal is not normal at all really eg I consider normal life as it was in the 70's where we had far greater freedoms than we do now, but the younger generation has no idea of what these freedoms were like.
Am I the only one who remembers those times? Sometimes it seems like it. Many of my human peers seem to have the memory of a goldfish.

Answer 4

Noam Chomsky had a few interesting words on football and other sports games.

Answer 5

i have my own theories on narcissi people and believe it all comes down to one cause, a lack of empathy.
their memories are shit due to them not tying emotions to memory eg not as strong.
Things are never their fault. Hindsight and foresight totally lacking except for big, vague objectives.

So I believe there are many in this world stuck living in the moment. The modern worlds 24 hr news cycle and instant gratification online has destroyed deep thought. People don't know what boredom is now, having time to yourself where you can think deeply and ponder. They just slip into playing Angry birds or whatever the latest fad is. Why read a book when instant gratification is available instantly online.
They also succumb to repetitive messaging and are beholden to their particular group thus their doctrine.

They may be smart people, but without any foresight nor hindsight due to shit memories, they are easily swayed by their own group and societal peers in the moment.

I wonder why Caitland still resides in the states as that nation seems full of what she rails about.
when the debate becomes personal, you know you have won.


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