I honestly think that accepting this fact, along with the fact that I'll never really get a full understanding of another country's politics and conflicts, is what helped me most in combating all the imperial propaganda around me.

This idea has been really pushed on me even more in my social work studies, that I don't know what's best for someone else and it's not my job to save them, and I've been extrapolating it more into my politics and it has been idk freeing i guess?

I don't know if this is the right place to post this but it's kinda about politics so idk.

  • Poogona [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not to widen the scope too much but I struggle with what you describe a lot. Not with the propaganda (I just do the usual thing where I assume America is at fault and it's right like 90 percent of the time), but with the reality of knowing so little about the world outside my own life. I've traveled a lot in my life but I've still never been able to escape the sense that I am just trying desperately to find patterns in the ocean of information that is the world. It makes the ground under all my convictions about geopolitics feel that much shakier. Real :lt-dbyf-dubois: mood

    Of course then I hear unhinged hogs talk about China for 5 minutes and I go back to being the World Understander again, and all is well.

  • Antiwork [none/use name, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is part of the limitations of being a single human. Pretty easy to exploit too. The amount of conversations that start with “I heard in China they (insert awful thing here)” is so fucking high because these people don’t live in China they don’t communicate with people who do live in China and so if some bullshit YouTuber says they do well they must or at the very least it’s partially true. So now I just respond with “That’s just made up by the west to make you hate China.” Usually ends the conversation so I don’t have to listen to China bashing for another 15 min. Because usually the piling on starts. “Well I heard they…..”