I genuinely thought the future would be a better place if so many kids grew up watching the same shit I did.

It makes no sense to me how you can stare at PBS programming for hours a day without a choice or be able to scroll or grab a controller, then grow up to like, cheer on people being put in concentration camps.

It makes me really feel like our species is hopeless. We would have maybe another 100,000 years of evolution in perfect circumstances to be the species that even all wants better outcomes together. We don't even want that. We're nowhere CLOSE to the Star Trek socialist utopia that poor sci-fi writers imagine we could be and will never have it in our present shape.

Even the average "progressive" who reads this site every day is isolated socially, despises some group of people, maybe for good reasons but besides the point, it's our default mode of operation because we're the same fucking monkey that bashed our neighboring tribe's skulls in and took their jerky and berries for half a million years or more before some of them started inventing waterwheels and money.