Yes, yes, I keep forgetting that. I just assume people know basic civics and history. I remember a few years ago in a group of folks, we were talking about the fall of the Berlin wall, and I mentioned NATO.... and two of the people there said, "What is NATO?" It was a jaw-dropping moment for me.... how can someone live in the late 20th Century and NOT know what NATO was?
Same thing today. I can point out things like "2000 MULES" or the Durham investigation, and even among purportedly conservative people get blank stares. Amazing.
Well my jaw did not LITERALLY drop, but the ignorance was enough to throw my mind into a moment of pause while I processed that. And as I get older, insulting people is less of a deterrent than it used to be.
Yup. Less and less time to care about “insults”. But more able to apologize (and eat crow when I’m wrong) and be kind.
Part of why we are in this mess is because we didn’t want to push back on politics, culture wars etc. (This May not have been your personal experience, but it was mine). We went old school and decided to not talk money, religion, politics...so we just keep quiet to offend or insult.
Quiet no more. They have done a great job dumbing down 2.5 generations of kids in school, so they do not know about history...and they can’t read the signs when we are on the wrong path.
It is easy to forget how far we have come across these 7 years.
Some even over de longer period of time.
Today too, I got the confirmation that many people are simply unaware what history is, what is going on, and how these inter-relate.
Talking to an anon by normies to them is a huge consciousness raiser, however, for us too, as we need to keep reminding ourselves, we are NOT normies.😎
I worked for a polling firm in the early nineties and interviewed a lady in her 80s where she said she never heard of AT&T. She was sharp as a tack on rest of her answers, and just kept thinking even to this day how she never heard of them.
Yes, yes, I keep forgetting that. I just assume people know basic civics and history. I remember a few years ago in a group of folks, we were talking about the fall of the Berlin wall, and I mentioned NATO.... and two of the people there said, "What is NATO?" It was a jaw-dropping moment for me.... how can someone live in the late 20th Century and NOT know what NATO was?
Same thing today. I can point out things like "2000 MULES" or the Durham investigation, and even among purportedly conservative people get blank stares. Amazing.
Just recently I had a discussion with a couple of guys who'd never heard of ivermectin. Had no idea what I was talking about. It's surreal.
If you let your jaw drop in front of them, they are insulted and turn off.
Well my jaw did not LITERALLY drop, but the ignorance was enough to throw my mind into a moment of pause while I processed that. And as I get older, insulting people is less of a deterrent than it used to be.
Yup. Less and less time to care about “insults”. But more able to apologize (and eat crow when I’m wrong) and be kind.
Part of why we are in this mess is because we didn’t want to push back on politics, culture wars etc. (This May not have been your personal experience, but it was mine). We went old school and decided to not talk money, religion, politics...so we just keep quiet to offend or insult.
Quiet no more. They have done a great job dumbing down 2.5 generations of kids in school, so they do not know about history...and they can’t read the signs when we are on the wrong path.
True dat!
It is easy to forget how far we have come across these 7 years.
Some even over de longer period of time.
Today too, I got the confirmation that many people are simply unaware what history is, what is going on, and how these inter-relate.
Talking to an anon by normies to them is a huge consciousness raiser, however, for us too, as we need to keep reminding ourselves, we are NOT normies.😎
We all become grumpy old men, dont we?
kek
I worked for a polling firm in the early nineties and interviewed a lady in her 80s where she said she never heard of AT&T. She was sharp as a tack on rest of her answers, and just kept thinking even to this day how she never heard of them.