I can. Folks like to have blind hope. They like to have righteous anger and they like to believe that they'll be the ones to fix the problem and that it'll be easy because they're on the good and right side of things. This requires believing that everybody else has just never tried, or never tried hard enough. I've had people say as much to me before, that the only reason we're all still here is that no one really tried hard enough to get out. It requires not knowing exactly how many avenues have been pursued already and proven too dangerous or too difficult or simply dead ends, because that cuts down the options to a much smaller pool and that makes them confront the fact that we're already at the bottom of the barrel. It requires knowing very little about the actual mechanics of what they're dealing with, because knowing the details makes the task appear more difficult than simply being right can overcome.
People don't want to know. They don't want to hear reason. They don't want advice. They want to be right. I was the same way when I first showed up. It's why I signed up with Elias. His whole platform's built on vague promises of 'helping', and never you mind how he intends to do it. He's right, so questioning him means you're wrong, and people who are wrong get punished.
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People don't want to know. They don't want to hear reason. They don't want advice. They want to be right. I was the same way when I first showed up. It's why I signed up with Elias. His whole platform's built on vague promises of 'helping', and never you mind how he intends to do it. He's right, so questioning him means you're wrong, and people who are wrong get punished.