I’ve met lots of people from different countries and the story is always the same. Low wages, jobs hard to find, housing inaccessible, politicians corrupt. Then the response is always to find a scapegoat. That’s the root of fascism, authoritarianism, whatever you want to call it.
Always have been and always will be. Humans are not as smart as people like to think they are. Humans have a shitton of PR teams to sell you that people are smarter than they actually are.
Fuck, people are dumb all over the globe.
Turns out Idiocracy was a documentary.
Xenophobia is at an all-time high.
And that’s one of the greatest proofs that people across different cultures are more alike than different.
I’ve met lots of people from different countries and the story is always the same. Low wages, jobs hard to find, housing inaccessible, politicians corrupt. Then the response is always to find a scapegoat. That’s the root of fascism, authoritarianism, whatever you want to call it.
That’s kinda sweet in a disappointing way.
They’re also manipulated on a global scale.
You can thank social media networks and private for profit media conglomerates for this.
Always have been and always will be. Humans are not as smart as people like to think they are. Humans have a shitton of PR teams to sell you that people are smarter than they actually are.