>>59370697*sips tea, drops an autistic nuke*
I think a lot of the time it’s because we just tend to be open about our thoughts on things, or very autistic about some things, hehe. IMO, a lot of the problems surrounding political discussion comes down to it being built on emotional investment, by design. Especially in America, which is literally red team vs blue team, and any nuance is brushed aside as insignificant/inconsequential or vilified without objective analysis, built on preconceptions so that the potential benefits one can draw from learning about policies that don’t follow the ultimate political zeitgeist are never explored. Politics today is built to keep you boxed in on tribalistic instinct, built upon reactionary emotional responses, while the political and financial elite simply siphon all the wealth, prosperity, and rights over time from the common man. They want us fighting each other over a system they designed themselves, while making us believe we have any real choices, because we have the right to vote, but it doesn’t matter when all the people we can vote for are in the same clique/kabal/etc. A good example is that Trump and the Clintons had regular dinners with each other, good friends, right before 2016’s elections.
Science is wonderful when not being abused for political purposes, in it’s purist form represents the logical ideal of progress! Anyone who loves Science also knows that not even the Laws are set in stone provided sufficient evidence can disprove them or in the light of new understanding. It’s good that you’re passionate about it!
History is the underdog of the various forms of studies. People sleep on it both by design
similar to politics, various entities will choose to teach catered versions of it, ban anything that might provoke ideas that can overrule the current political zeitgeist, manipulate it to promote specific political purpose, etc and a lot of people who teach it either being dispassionate or bad at making it interesting or exciting. Understanding history gives you a lot of lenses into the human condition, greater context around the occurrences of events, how people lived, how absolutely batshit life has always been, the patterns that repeat in every tribe, civilization, religion, etc, and so much more. You can see how while many things change, many things stay the same, and the roots of much of what we have today through history, everything from number systems that have roots in Arabic history, modern law that is largely codified from Justinian Law’s codification of Roman Statuettes, and so much more. There is a depth to it that is amazing, filled with wisdom and cautionary tales, and so much of it we will simply never know because it is lost, or records we have are from specific perspective.
Also thank you but I’m not perfect by any means, I’ve got a lot of flaws that I am working on and wouldn’t be surprised if I had mental issues undiagnosed, given my mom’s refusal to believe in the possibility of mental health issues being a thing. I’m definitely autistic and most likely adhd too. I’m very frank about a lot of things, and had a long and bad NEET phase. Regardless, thank you for the kindness >_<
>>59370902True!
>>59370983In what sense specifically? If it’s the accent(s), it’s the same as every country: regional differences, even differences with large enough cities like London and Manchester, there’s a whole north vs south thing going on and theres many dialectic trends even between different classes of people in many regions. This is no different from going from State to State in America and within different social strata of people within said states. If you mean vs America, it’s because there isn’t as unifying a sense of “correct” speech and accent per media standards like the newscaster/politician intonation, which is something they train for. You also see this in Singapore and Hong Kong where news casters and middle-upper class people are taught to speak a very posh sounding form of English, but in Singapore there’s also Singlish which is colloquially English while taking loan words and phrases from various peoples that make up Singapore, a lot of Hokkien Chinese terminology and Malay terminology specifically. I’m no expert in linguistics but there’s a lot of reasons things like that develop in a historical context. In SEA you will see this a lot traveling through different countries, like you can cross over on an hour boat ride in the Philippines and you can have all the words from one dialect have opposite meanings in the dialect of the people at the other island.
