• latenightnoir@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      I have been blissfully ignorant until now, it seems…

      How can things be THIS much worse than what one would expect?

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Your expectations were too optimistic.

        A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.

        Agent Kay, MiB

        Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

        George Carlin

        (By the way, the average American has the literacy level of a 5th-6th grader now, so that’s about 160 millionish people basically dumber than 6th graders, 11 year olds)

          • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            I used to as well.

            I was going to post you a link of Land of Confusion cover, but I broke down into ugly crying for 10 minutes… something in it triggered me, remembering all the high hopes I used to have for humanity…

            • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 months ago

              Oh, I’m really sorry to hear that… I have similar moments from time to time, it’s heartbreaking at a completely unprecedented level…

              I’ll look it up, thank you!