• McJonalds@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    you’re grasping at something deeper here. humans have an underlying tendency to be gullible and easily manipulateable. we need to pour funds and funds into the education system and move more focus onto critical thinking, logical fallacies and self-esteem / self-image, as it plays a large role in calling out injustices and building an accurate world view

    imo its the no. 1 reason the world is so fucked. we believe evrything we’re told because it appeals to a sense of self-empowerment (our tribe over theirs). hunter gatherer tribes would sometimes literally slaughter each other to survive. it is in our instincts to be able to be convinced that other groups of people are our enemies, when really everyone thinking the exact opposite would be heaven on earth, except for the ultra greedy

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      2 years ago

      So true. The only way that the human race is to survive and prosper into the far future is for us to move to a mindset of the whole world’s population being one big tribe, as far as I am concerned. We will eventually destroy ourselves if we keep with the ‘us vs them’ mindset.

      Star Trek was definitely on to something.