There's a reason the more educated you are, the more likely you are to hold left wing views.

You can't learn how the world works and not want to take obvious steps to improve things

...........unless you're a psychopath

Having a masters in behavioral science comes with additional agony these days.

It’s best to be an idiot. Education only makes you miserable knowing this world is fucked and no amount of education defeats pure evil.

This is why I've stopped listening to 99% Invisible.

"Oh, cool that's what the bumps in the sidewalk/curb are for - blind accessibility stuff. Wait, why did it take that fucking long to actually make those a reality and why isn't it everywhere?"

Even their more lighthearted ones tend to dive into some orphan grinding machine territory.

Yup! This is why we need to take money out of the hands of the wealthy and give it to the people they exploited.

This is why I watch kurzgesagt so I can have EXISTENTIAL crisis about things that will never actually affect me like the sun burning out, or the universe going completely dark, instead of more worldly crisis.

We have always feared a robot uprising that would take over the world and subjugate humans, as though robots will replace us as the ultimate alpha predators.

We've already been replaced by our own creation. Money itself is the dominant species on this planet. Capitalism is the metabolic process of the organism. The stock market is its circulatory system. Politicians are its organs. Billionaires are its reproductive system. The individual workers are the mitochondria. This is a planet scale life form that is ready to reproduce itself onto surrounding bodies in space.

If you want the solution to the Fermi paradox there it is. Once a civilization is infected with economics it's only a matter of time before it is consumed by its own creation.

Me when I watch any nature/animal documentary. So many endangered or extinct animals and for what??

Fun side-effect: one finds a strange appreciation and understanding for supervillains hell-bent on ending life on earth, "for no reason".

Hey, if you want to see the world burn so badly, stop dilly-dallying and bring out the big guns! This is really taking longer than necessary.

How did you find a photo of me, with an accurate caption?

This is me but with anti-car urbanism. Ever since I discovered Not Just Bikes, my feed has more and more videos showing how much better life can be if we shut off car brain and build for medium density with mixed use zoning and multi-mode infrastructure.

Ah, so you too have watched Adam Curtis documentaries.

HyperNormalisation https://youtu.be/to72IJzQT5k

Also applicable to scrolling through Lemmy most days.

I tried switching to historical documentaries but people have been terrible since well before we started writing things down.

I just downloaded like 30 seasons of modern marvels. I'm hoping those will restore some of my optimism for life since watching that show made me happy as a child.

I deal with it by trying my best but also a heavy dose of cognitive dissonance when required. And learning (painstakingly slowly) how to be compassionate to myself regarding my shortcomings of not being able to fix it all.

Hence why conservatives hate education. It makes you have to feel empathy for other people and we can’t have that.

Meanwhile, History Channel: Aliens. It's all Aliens.

if anyone is in need of good news this morning: https://archive.is/lv3eU

Me when I first watched Mr.Rob0t as a kid

Yeah...

wait til you figure out that all of human history is one giant cycle of people being incredibly cruel to other people for incredibly tenuous reasons and realize this cycle will, presumably, never end; and thus every interaction you have with other people is if not driven by transaction (what can you do for them), likely to be driven by cruelty.

sweet dreams, it doesn't get better.

I try my best to have my kid stay ignorant to politics , but sometimes it's hard. Ignorance is bliss until you can't escape.