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Lies you were told as a kid?
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So many.
But also a lot of truths I had to learn the hard way (and being ASD exacerbated this).
Crime does pay. Especially if you’re rich. (Wish: no it should not fucking pay)
No. You don’t have to share. Nobody makes an adult share their car with some rando who shows up to the family bbq like we make kids share their toys with some kid showing up. (No, don’t compare this to taxes, that’s shallow and devoid of nuance)
IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.
I wish that all the fictional lovely futures we’d imagined when I was a kid were real. Clean cities. Flying cars. Clean power. Space stations. Amazing medical care. The ability for everyone to choose a nice life and what to do with it. We’re getting the opposite.
Worst lie currently: “checks and balances in the US government keep anyone from getting too much control.”
There are a lot more. They’re easier to remember when confronted with them.
I had this conversation with a conservative acquaintance of mine. It went on for hours. He needed there to be good vs bad in his worldview and everyone needed to be at least on a sliding scale good to bad. Everything needed to be they're not bad they just ...
The thing about humans
Most humans just are. Neither good nor bad, probably on average more good than has as its a requirement for out social way of life to exist in the first place, but yeah; most people just want to make it to the end of the day without too much bullshit.
A lot of the bullshit we have to deal with on a daily basis is caused bybhowbthe world had been setup now by narcissists over the past few hundred years. Its whybwe allow rich people to just get richer without limit. Its why we have poverty, and from there hundreds, of not thousands of problems come.
Want humanity to start behaving better? Implement wealth caps world wide. I firmly believe that over time, that will end all of humanities' problems
I recall a Bible radio show about the "are people good or evil naturally" pushing really hard on the "all humans evil and need god (and also moneys plz fo church just a widdle).
I don't think its a "naturally" one way or the other. You see how sweet kids are and non racist they are until some asshole parent or otherwise trains them to be bigots. Then some kids are just uncontrollable. Its random.