[ SECRET POST #2686 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Confused

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, man. Sometimes people just go nuts when they get older. Maybe it's a bit easier to be laid back and live-and-let-live when you're young and have relatively little to use. When people get old and jaded and have mortgages, they can get a bit... selfish. And angry. They start looking for people to blame for problems, while refusing to face the fact that life is more complicated than that.

That, and the whole "Minorities/the gays/women/Democrats are out to get us!" schtick is very, very powerful in that it almost makes a twisted sort of sense if you are 1) not that knowledgeable about politics, the economy or how the world works and 2) don't think very hard about any of those things. As horrible as this sounds, most people fall into this category. It's not that they're stupid or don't care, it's just that they haven't given it a whole lot of critical thought so they're easily led by the sort of spittle flecked scaremongering the right wing specializes in.

What's worse is that a whole lot of middle-class/rich white Christians genuinely believe they're under threat and that their problems are the worst problems, so the fact that others don't see it that way feels like heartless negligence at best and an outright attack at worst. The hardcore group encourages this way of thinking because it rallies the less hardcore people to the cause, so it becomes this vicious cycle people do not break out of because it's too hard.

I have no idea what happened to your college friend, since she's not that old. Maybe something happened that damaged her idealism and this is how she retreats. Some people are like that. They knew ONE awful woman on welfare and suddenly everyone on welfare is a bloodsucking parasite. They knew ONE marriage broken up because the husband was gay and now all gay people are out to destroy the hets. If they gave it some sensible thought, they'd realize how silly this was, but as I said earlier, most people won't do that level of thinking even if they were capable of it.

Re: Confused

[(Anonymous)]

idk, I think it's a little more complicated than that. Young people can be extremely loud, angry, blameful of others and prone to oversimplify complicated things, and can take absolutely everything very personally, to the point that they quite often look "nuts" to older people. They often mellow out a bit as they get older and more experienced, lose some of that youthful zeal and have to devote more of their energy to practical day-to-day matters. Then sometimes they do get more jaded and angry about different things when they grow older still.

I think it depends a great deal on the person and what their life experiences are as they go along.

Re: Confused

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that conflicts with anything I said, though?