Friends, what popular things around you irritate you? For example, a few years ago I was terribly annoyed by motivational speakers crawling out from under every bush
Oh yeah, like how everyone had a freaking Ted Talk so they can tell us the most blatant, obvious and sugar-coated advice in how to live or what to be inspired by? Yeah that shit was jarringly annoying. There was a reason the whole “Welcome to my Ted Talk” was a thing, it was because of that.
A life trend that always bothered me, was when people had a limited amount of fucks to give about certain things. Like it was all based on how reported it was. The Hong Kong protests for example, used to have been huge but it lost traction like after a month simply because reports slowed down. Reports slowed down, people stopped giving a fuck and they moved on. And what happened? Hong Kong went up in smoke because we turned our backs toward it.
Panama Papers, the moment where we were close to bursting out all of the secret dealings that rich people and corporations did with their wealth. Yeah, same deal, stopped being reported as much, people stopped giving a fuck.
Like people were treating these big moments like outrage flavor of the week.
Aren’t the panama papers stil being investigated though? Isn’t Hong Kong still fighting for their freedom? These things loose coverage in media, because modern media always needs to be fast and spectacular. But real, meaningful things are slow and thoughtful. Therefore, popular media is dumb and loud. It’s not really the people who are to blame, it’s the media.
It’s not always the media…
Because the phrase of ‘those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it’ comes right into play. The people ignore whatever it was the media reported and soon we’re going to be doomed to repeat it. People have to stick to these issues, they have to be grounded and they have to keep holding those responsible that are linked to these issues.
Instead, people bumble around all day, wondering why there’s still corruption, wondering why there’s still political bullshit going on and wondering why nothing seems to get better. Well, it’s because they decided to ignore it and not do enough.
I agree with you, but it’s all so very nuanced. There’s not a single entity to blame. If it was easy, it wouldn’t be a problem.
I don’t think these problems will ever be solved. It’s in human nature, but it’s important to remain vigilant. I think that is something many people, like you and me, do every once in a while.
There are definitely still people keeping an eye on the panama papers and their trials. Like the icij and the bbc
Loneliness.
Subscriptions for everything
Gestures broadly
Everyone suddenly having a podcast, and not even a particularly useful one, mostly just self-indulgent shit
