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We should blame religion, patriarchy, racism and capitalism.
Those are perpetuated by the stupidity and gullibility described above.
so what exactly is your solution, magically making people not be gullible?
you're just perpetuating the idea that there's nothing to be done, you're saying these things so you don't have to think about the uncomfortable reality that things are as they are for a reason, that we can and should be taking action to change the systems that promote misery.
Did I claim to have a solution..?
I do think that teaching empathy and logic so that the children may understand the world and society is a good idea that would drastically reduce the number of people that fall into the category of "gullible idiot."
How do we do that? What are the specifics? No clue. But teach people how to learn for fucks sake.
Also you are projecting a lot of your own shit onto me I think. I made a pretty simple comment and you read a fucking fanfic.
Gullible to believe that we can‘t change anything? Who told you that? Capitalists!
I was saying that the gullible are to blame for us still having those problems.
And this right here folks is why nothing will ever change. Because phantasmagorical ideological abstractions get blamed instead of actual features of reality, such as psychopathy, ignorance, greed, selfishness, and so on.
So how have things changed?
Moral progress! It takes a long, long time to convince average people to accept moral claims, such as the badness of slavery. There’s a kind of tipping point when normative facts are FINALLY absorbed into the culture and propagated through non-intellectual means (such as media and social pressure).
Democracy is actually the best vehicle for moral progress in that respect, as democratic scholars have been pointing out for the last century or so.
Democracy is great. We should really aim for it, instead of giving political power to the wealthy.