I think one of the most insufferable kinds of people are the ones who say: “I don’t read/watch the news because it makes me sad!” This is the mindset of someone willing to sit idly by while momentous historical events unfold, without regard for their impact.
You are watching your country be massacred from the inside out and you are too selfishly absorbed by the trivial things happening in your personal life to notice. If you’re reading this and thinking “Well, it doesn’t affect me.” Oh, but it does!
News flash: it impacts you (and not in a good way!). It impacts your children. It impacts your livelihood, your friends, your family, everyone around you. Your narrow minded perspective of the world will inevitably lead to your own downfall. You are slowly killing yourself and everyone around you simply by not looking up from your own little world.
We are floating in infinite space on a rock. That situationship you’re in won’t matter in a few years. You know what will? When you can no longer afford to feed your family because the economy is so royally screwed up. When your friends lose their rights to vote. When vital programs are defunded. When everything is ruined. When a tangerine man with a poorly bleached toupee and a billionaire supervillain succeed in taking over everything.
To not educate yourself is a selfish and ignorant choice. You are choosing your own temporary peace of mind over the future of not just yourself, but everyone around you. An uninformed population is an obedient one.
I saw the other day the following lines: “The forest was shrinking. But the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.”
No, that exert is not about deforestation in the literal sense.
Choose wisely who you elect to “blindly follow.” You cannot pledge “liberty and justice for all” when you really only mean yourself and those “like” you. To love your country is to fight for it, not sit by while power hungry tyrants and bigots tear it to pieces. Do better.
Your ignorance and lack of care for the planet and people around you is so insanely selfish and insufferable, you make me nauseous. And if you’re reading this and are feeling offended, know how smug that makes me feel. If this resonates, then let’s hope this is your wake up call.
Otherwise, if the shoe fits, wear it. It’s all you’ll have left when this mess is over.
