What I mean to say is that there are a million things that could be fixed in america if it wasn’t for the RICH and powerful bankrolling the POLITICAL and powerful.

We will never get these things to happen as long as we have social media companies lobbying for politicians to protect their reach and their influence (thus, their money!)

The system must change

Yeah I agree w that

I’m not a politics guy.

So now what? How can we move forward, knowing the law won’t have our back?

Nothing wrong with being an apolitical person

Well not necessarily that but I get not being political in our day and age. Normal Americans are extremely alienated from their collective power

Watch Bojack Horseman they explain it

Then it’s up to the parents to keep certain things away from their children

With millennials and older gen z having kids now the excuse of “oh I don’t understand computers” is no longer valid

i genuinely think a basic epistemological breakdown on how science is a very strong and useful tool, yet has its limits just like anything else does would do wonders

it's pretty embarrassing how widely spread the sentiment is that science is the only way to come to knowledge, this allows people to take science's findings as absolute truth(s) and form some sort of nihilistic reductive mindset of the world at large, depression is usually not far off its heels afterwards

im sure there's more glaring things wrong with society at large, but the materialist zeitgeist is insidious and overlooked imo

If I had to take a guess I would assume it’s drilling for oil in the oceans right? I’ve heard it in passing but I never actually looked it up

I don't disagree with you at all on a philosophical basis, but you have to consider this on a wide sociological level when discussing the dissemination of ideas. The way philosophical concepts interface with mass populations isn't as simple as what's right or wrong or what sentiment is the catalyst for what library of thought.

nah i just never put fracking under the political umbrella that's all

like to do it requires permits and govt permission but so does fishing lmao

it's more like drilling for oil in your backyard

That’s not what fracking is

"more like"

reduce what it is to one sentence in your own words then

to see the flip on psychedelics in real time is so wild to me tbh

psychs went from "just as bad as heroin or cocaine, anyone that does them is a d***gie" to "this can potentially holistically mitigate depression and other mental health conditions"

Fracking is using high pressure liquids to break bedrock for oil extraction

^

thats just a start i think we all realize that mental health doesnt contain any sort of end final answer

So @plants was trying to dunk on me for not knowing what it was when he didn’t even know

wow sure sounds close to drilling for oil since they use a drill and out comes oil

let it go man

yep

Nah bro he schooled you

Humble yourself

whatever keeps that beautiful smile on your face