I bring up Epstein because just like this example- I view things differently from everyone else. Everyone is focused on the same single thing. When you need to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. When you need to look at what his main purpose is.
Or what the main purpose of education is (mass indoctrination), what voting is (appearance of choice to quell the plebs from uprising), why lab tests are terrible and never show anything is wrong until you are deathly sick (no profit in healing ppl)- too many to list.
Ever since I was a kid, I was thinking about things very differently from everyone else. Somethings has taken 20 3040 years for it to become “main stream” thoughts and ideas- but it was NOT something anyone thought about, written about, on the news etc.
It’s kind of like how George Carlin was 40 years ahead of the time. He was already talking about the rich, the inequality, the myth of voting, a rigged economic and political system etc. as early as the 70s.
But no one listened to him- they just heard jokes. But the man was talking about all this stuff that’s only now become “obvious” or mainstream talk in the last 5-10 years. But Carlin had been the line guy talking about it for all these decades.
Well the unabomber too. But no one paid attention to his manisfesto which he was pretty right about (he talks about how the Industrial revolution– ie technology- is the doom of the avg person. That it restricts freedom, leads to a surveillance state.
I mean ppl are aware of AI and how that can destroy humanity, but Ted Kaczynski had been writing all about it since 1995. And he was right.
But no one paid attention to that. Only to his killing spree. And then the public just moved on to other news. Just like we do today.
Some news goes viral for a few days, or even a few weeks, but eventually the public forgets because the new cycle is so rapid- It’s always another disaster after disaster. People can’t keep up. Peoples outrage and attention only lasts so long.
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Anyhow, my point of the post is that ever since I was young, I’ve always thought differently from other people. The things I thought about was never talked about by others – until decades later. And NOW we are talking about the things I’ve thought about and been saying since I was 7.
Yes, I was 7-9 when I noticed misogyny and an unfair and imbalanced system against females. It helped to have gone to 3 different elementary schools so I saw in every school the power dynamics and how girls weren’t given the same “rights” as boys.
For ex, in 2nd grade (age 7) we would have recess and we were supposed to “play house.” All the girls would pair up with a boy to role play. And all the boys would pretend to come home from work, read a newspaper etc. while the girls ALl automatically role played as a fucking housewife. (This was in the 1980s).
I was the only 7yo going WTF. This isn’t right.
For reference, when I was in school, girls were also not “allowed” in the drum corps bc “girls can’t carry drums.” And girls had to take “home ec” and learn how to sew stupid ass potpourri sachets. While the boys took shop and learned actual useful information.
I was a tomboy and was pissed I could not take shop like the boys. But NO ONE- not a single other girl or teacher- not a single FEMALE teacher thought that was wrong or weird. It was something that has always been done and so was expected for the kids, especially the girls- to just follow like sheep.
But of course no 7yo or 12yo (when I was more vocal) was talking about this shit, so I was just always thought of as “that weird girl” by other kids my age.
If you were one of the early people to talk about feminism or women’s rights or equality you were looked at as fucking weird.
Ofc all that is “standard” now but my way of thinking (ie gender equality) was NOT a thing back then. I mean it was slowly changing but we hadn’t gotten there yet. Not till I was older. Much older.
Anyway, my point is- I have always thought of things differently from everyone else. That is what leads me to be a loner. To be misunderstood. To be cast as weird.
Just like my current views on things and life.
For ex- for the longest time, I’ve been complaining that it is not a left versus right issue, but a rich versus us issue. And that I could no longer be a democrat (bc the party is corrupt and only pays lip service), and now FINALLY after 11 years of me ranting about this- NOW finally a few ppl are starting to get that. But MOST are still “I’m with Team Blue” or “I’m with Team Red” / MAGA bullshit.
Obviously I’m no George Carlin – the guy was kind of a genius and was way ahead of his time – but I had These thoughts and ideas that did not become popular or mainstream until much much later.
It’s crazy how people think you are “weird” or “crazy” if you have a thought that is not mainstream.
I honestly think most Americans have never had an un-Original thought. As in every thought or idea has been pumped to us via the mainstream media or by social media. Very few people come up with their own ideas. The ones that do, are thought of as “weird” or “crazy” and treated as such- until it becomes mainstream- and then they are labeled as “revolutionaries” – after being cast aside as a lunatic for decades.
Speaking of revolutions – did you know – only 10% of the public were for the revolution and did anything in regards to the war effort. We are misled- told to us- that everyone was for it. Nope. It was not a popular idea with the masses. Despite the stupid “tea party” incident where the colonists threw the tea overboard into the ocean.
Anyway, I guess I will always be misunderstood. And a loner -_-
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Other countries became progressive earlier than the US, so Carlin and people growing up back in the days might have been influenced by that. Topics such as gender equality, rich-poor divide, and ethnic diversity were discussed much more frequently in my home country than the US (my family moved to a very conservative metro area at the time). I think before the mid-2010s, talking about them in many parts of the US was still considered a social and career liability.
The US had also swung that direction in the 60s but reverted quickly.