Q: Into the Storm (2021)
cloroxbleach 4 points 3 years ago.

Well, yes, I certainly agree with that as well. It’s fair to say that it’s healthy to question and examine the government and question whether it has good intentions for its people. Beyond that though, the Q Anon thing is pretty cult like, it’s based on a lot of hearsay and nonsense, and it doesn’t actually encourage people to think for themselves. My gran lived through the Great Depression and WW2 and I think she’s right when she told me that “people tend to start believing bizarre things under times of distress or disorder”. I’m not gonna blather on about my own opinions of Q (except that I’ll say it’s a crazy story with more plot holes than ‘facts’, with no objectivity or “research” whatsoever).
The point of my comment though was that it’s creepy to me how people are so “one or the other” about everything. If you dislike Trump, you were assumed to love Hilary. If you say you’re not into the left, people assume you must be on the right. In particular, many people who claim to be “left” (and thus assume that means they’re the “progressive ones” who care about human rights and all-sorts of other good things) but then they adamantly are against freedom of speech. That’s what I meant by fascism creeping in from all sides, I Feel political correctness is simply another annoying thread of fascism.
The left and the right are two wings of the same poisoned bird.

snazzydetritus 2 points 3 years ago.

I agree. This aggressive polarity is fruitless, illusory, and dangerous. People are indeed taking to these extremes, as you and a commenter above mentioned, because these are desperate and chaotic times, and the human brain and spirit needs to be able to survive and make sense of the situation. The media we ravenously consume and our emotional, reactionary response to it, and the events that bombard us on a daily basis, further complicates our ability to see things objectively. We allow even slight, superficial differences of opinion to feed the angry beast within and drive us apart from our fellow humans. The farther we drift from one another, the less chance we have of any UNITY, which is the only shot we have at actually changing the world for the better. I feel like if we dropped our defensive idealism, and broke down what each of us truly values, we could find that our neighbor might have the same ultimate values, even if they appear on paper to belong to the “other side”. You can write this off as hippie-dippy crap if you want. It doesn’t mean it it’s not possible.