👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Brexit was stupid because people voted yes for an impossible and nonsensical delusion where no-one knew the actual outcome. This is even stupider because he told them what he wanted to do, experts explained why it would hurt ordinary people, he had shown his priorities the first time around and they STILL voted for it and ar…
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Brexit was stupid because people voted yes for an impossible and nonsensical delusion where no-one knew the actual outcome. This is even stupider because he told them what he wanted to do, experts explained why it would hurt ordinary people, he had shown his priorities the first time around and they STILL voted for it and are now pretending there was no way to know this would happen… 🙄
Some people WANT to believe that the world they grew up in (at least their flawed memories of their limited perceptions of that time) is still around. It's a desire for simplicity, back when things weren't so complicated and grey and crowded and diverse. And while I do blame them, I can understand the feeling. As I get older, I find myself thinking that life WAS better in the 90s, back before 9/11, 3+ recessions, and social media. I know that's simplistic to the point of solipsism, but the feeling remains. With no optimism for the future, hiding in an imagined past sounds better and better.
“ Some people WANT to believe that the world they grew up in (at least their flawed memories of their limited perceptions of that time) is still around.”
Exactly. This mistake was the root cause of both Brexit and Trump.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Brexit was stupid because people voted yes for an impossible and nonsensical delusion where no-one knew the actual outcome. This is even stupider because he told them what he wanted to do, experts explained why it would hurt ordinary people, he had shown his priorities the first time around and they STILL voted for it and are now pretending there was no way to know this would happen… 🙄
Some people WANT to believe that the world they grew up in (at least their flawed memories of their limited perceptions of that time) is still around. It's a desire for simplicity, back when things weren't so complicated and grey and crowded and diverse. And while I do blame them, I can understand the feeling. As I get older, I find myself thinking that life WAS better in the 90s, back before 9/11, 3+ recessions, and social media. I know that's simplistic to the point of solipsism, but the feeling remains. With no optimism for the future, hiding in an imagined past sounds better and better.
“ Some people WANT to believe that the world they grew up in (at least their flawed memories of their limited perceptions of that time) is still around.”
Exactly. This mistake was the root cause of both Brexit and Trump.