One thing that I’ve been thinking about lately is the inherent friction between people’s ease at seeing that something is wrong but our difficulty at figuring out what is wrong. It’s easy to say “my life is shit, I’m depressed all the time, and cruel people keep getting away with things”, but it’s really tough to have the critical thinking skills to think that it might be the cause of a system you’ve grown up with your whole life, something that has been propagandized into you as good (or at the least, normal). At the worst cases, this leads to people lashing out at immigrants, or commies, or whatever buzzword they’ve been talking about recently (and let’s be real, people on the left do this too, but I digress). At it’s best (but still just as insidious), it leads to the neonliberalism that the video talked about, a frustration with the world that doesn’t present any alternatives.
