Karl wrote:You want me to stop blaming "everyone"? Well I think that's a misreading of my ideology, I don't actually blame anyone in particular, I blame the system, society as a whole needs to be changed as much as we can to limit how bad things get.
You want me to stop being furious? No, I'm not going to pretend I'm not upset with the way the world's going, why should I?
Ah right, mainly I was just trying to be funny with an exaggerated rant back, realised it wasn't when I read it back, and deleted it. So, errr, sorry.
But, blame what system exactly, and turn it into what?
I also don't think the state of the world is too bad. People in general lead longer, happier, healthier lives than at any point in history. We understand more about the world than ever before and science will march ever onwards.
People do distrust politics now, but I don't remember a time that wasn't the case. Is it really much worse now, or us it that we're paying more attention at the moment because of Brexit? I suppose the collapse of governments and political gridlock is pretty unprecedented and it's no surprise that brings a general anxiety.
Pollution is the big one for me, but even over the last few years I've seen attitudes in general changng on that in ways I never thought would happen; I assumed people would continue to be selfish until the world died. And some will, but it feels to me like there has been a shift so that it had become a majority rather than a minority concern.