• theparadox@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Seriously. We’re also causing mass extinction of species alive right now with our activity… and we refuse to change anything because it’s inconvenient.

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      Humans are fundamentally good but our modern capitalist white supremacist society brainwashes people into doing evil acts like eating meat we don’t need for survival

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        Our modern capitalists will brainwash, manipulate, coerce, and otherwise force the population to do whatever makes them more fucking money. The environment, animals, or other humans only matter if it upsets another capitalist with the means to enforce some kind of consequence.

        We may be fundamentally good, but I’m beginning to think we’re too collectively stupid and too easily influenced by those among us who are selfish. It’s just too easy to spread lies and too hard to correct them. Every mechanism we have created to combat this has been partially or completely captured and are now twisted into reinforcing the lies instead of challenging them. Technology, news outlets, research/think-tanks, schools, pretty much the entire Internet.