The COVID Jerk
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Outside of the stuff everyone else picked out as garbage, even in these "let's be nice" articles they really have a flawed idea of the mindset of the vast majority on the other side. As if for example I want so much for vaccines to kill everyone that I'm looking forward to standing on the piles of bodies of friends and family that would be gone. No, it would fucking suck. Hell, most of my family in particular that didn't are the annoying ones I don't like that much. Most of the ones that took it aren't even the total CNN sheep, they just thought they were doing the right thing, or were kids that didn't really have a choice, etc.
Or what about my emotional perspective. I had a shitty time of things the second half of 2020. It's tough being cut off from the world abruptly. Blah, blah "do things with just your household." My household is ONE. I'm a tough old shit that will trudge on, but thinking of how I was, there's no way in hell that there weren't a shit-ton of suicide statistics in that camp too. Oh wait, they don't matter, because a Covidian might feel uncomfortable. I live in Texas too, where I didn't have to put up with it as much.
They are collectivists. To them all kind, caring human beings are naturally collectivists. They don't understand how anyone could NOT be a collectivist without being a selfish bastard. Hence he has to try to "unpack it" and come up with some rational explanation.
(example: in the game Disco Elysium - created by communists - there's a conversation where if you signal a leaning towards Libertarian philosophy, you lose -1 Empathy points)
Empathy is one of the least favorite things they co-opted--the notion that the only appropriate reaction to empathy is to coddle and comfort. There could be someone who is living through the exact shitty situation that I had in the past, of course empathy would be a given. So if based on my own experience I think they should suck it up and take the hard road and they will be better in the end, but nope that's not empathy. It's all "oh I'm so sorry, you didn't do anything wrong you shouldn't have to suffer you poor little thing."
I wonder if that's why parenting keeps getting suckier too. Go directly to the coddle/comfort and not what's best for the kid to learn from.