once you learn how capitalism works, you realize how much it destroys our lives, our personalities, and the world
How people embrace religions and the horrors they've inflicted on people in the name their religion and their god or gods.
For me, it’s realizing that Hollywood isn't just a dream factory, but an industry where a bunch of powerful men have historically coerced women into sex in exchange for a chance to appear in a movie.
Also, learning how the media and political elites push identity politics constantly. It feels like a deliberate attempt to get everybody fighting a culture war so that they are distracted from uniting around a class war against economic exploitation.
And probably the biggest one is foreign policy. Growing up you hear about America spreading freedom and democracy around the world. The more you learn, the more you realize it's actually about orchestrating coups, destabilizing regions, and stealing resources—all to exploit people and lower costs for corporations.
cough Harvey cough
It's an easy game not to play.
The pool of talent wanting to be in film is incredibly large - when Iived there it felt like half of LA was trying to make it in the entertainment business. Even the LA Police have casting leave written into their contracts in case they pick up a part.
So yes, the system is exploitative. But every person there is willingly playing that game using the cards they have available to them. Most of them lose.
What's worrying is the stuff we don't know about the world that's being kept secret from everyone.
Looking at the ways bodily autonomy is infringed upon.
Any subject on Last Week Tonight
Internet privacy and ad retargeting is a rabbit hole that the move I go down the more I wish we never get let Big Tech normalize their methods.
And it's getting worse by the minute!

our professor used the japanese internment camp case to teach us about the limits of presidential power. indiscriminately shoving people into camps was a thing the president was 100% allowed to do to us citizens. the president, the court, the congress were all like "yup sounds American to us."
Well my law degree did that for me. The more I learned the more I saw how truly stacked things are against the little guy.
Hospitals. You end up seeing a lot of serious things and it tends to make you think disease is everywhere.
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