“We got him elected.”
There were clips of rogans shitty podcast after trump got elected and Joe Rogan was ecstatic saying this shit. I’m not gonna search for the clip but I’m pretty sure he said it, and undeniably he was enthusiastic about trump winning.
I’ve speculated about this a bit.
Our society protects and/or hides from the general masses, a lot of the bad stuff that happens in the world. It’s the media and our lawmakers, but it’s also very cultural.
The Internet has also been very dumbed down. 20 years ago it used to be easier to find videos of some of the horrors that occur around the world. Drug cartel videos, war videos, terrorist videos. Remember rotten.com, etc?
I think seeing stuff like that, or maybe not the extreme detail but at least hearing about it, gives you a different perspective. At least it did for me, towards the empathetic and cautious.
If people are protected and hidden from the bad, how will they ever know? The people I’ve met that lack empathy seem very childish like they’ve never been exposed to anything.
This, in my opinion, is very much on purpose and by design. If our population had all the gruesome details about what really goes on in the world, the wars, the trafficked children, terrorist and drug cartel tortures, all the suffering in 3rd world countries and poverty…
They would be less happy, and therefore less enthusiastic to go buy stuff. Also, many would be causing a ruckus for our leaders to fix it all.
Your purpose is to produce and consume, to prop up the billionaire and elite leadership class. And not cause any problems, or at least kept in control. This is best when you’re “happy” and content. Or at least content enough to keep the machine churning.
I’d love the latter, but it’s rare and generally way more expensive I think.