"Lest make up things not actually happening and pretend to be mad at it to get regular people to react in support and opposition of the imagined narrative" is the social media economy. "Manufactured Outrage" every time I make the mistake to scroll anything there is some bot account milking engagement by saying things someone will either get mad at or second usually using an ai generated image. https://www.etsy.com/shop/CraftyAndyArts
He wished he went to university. By Kiwi standards he is conservative but has no issues saying everything we talk of today, mental health, LGBTQ+, social class contrasts, poverty, religious abuse, child abuse, wife abuse, discrimination of every type in the book, everything. They had it then. But do you know what they did?
They brushed it under the rug for us to suffer the damage. This is a stuffy old boomer who doesn't care, people were damaged in the in the name of an idealized bullshit illusion of morality and tranquility serious problems were both ignored and forced away to maintain this illusion we now have.
He knew kids molested by clergy, he saw the church speak of values that even I, a non-religious would agree with ignored and only in his middle age did he learn of how his grandpa was shoved in an asylum and how he ended it in a river, before that he thought it was a boating accident. I have mental health issues and he's supportive of it.
The irony is that the snowflake, touchy-feely approach can be no less destructive. It has allowed toxic elements from the abused or ignored side to be the poster children and make the rest look bad.
I apologize for rambling. I'm neither left nor right but a cynical centrist.
He wished he went to university. By Kiwi standards he is conservative but has no issues saying every
