Couldn't remember quite the right word I was trying to think of, but the closest I can say is "redirection". Their lives suck and they've built up a mental profile of blaming religion and other things like that as the cause of all their woes.

I recognize this because I had to work on getting over this myself. That's not to say that I didn't have some legitimate complaints that did indeed impact me in negative ways, but it became increasingly safe and easy to jump to blaming local religion rather than identifying and recognizing how often it was my own laziness or incompetence that led to certain things playing out the way they did.

It's especially a hard pill to swallow when you get older. There's no undo or rewind button, no "earlier save" you can load up. You have to accept the results of your own fuck ups and decide how you're going to deal with it.

Then again, with the kinds of activists we're talking about here, ideological social circles can be an entirely different kind of animal. Where instead of confronting politicians and government officials, medical professionals, and/or mega corporations for messing up their livelihoods, they've been brainwashed into directing that anger onto trendy targets.

Couldn't remember quite the right word I was trying to think of, but the closest I can say is "redirection". Their lives suck and they've built up a mental profile of blaming religion and other things like that as the cause of all their woes.

I recognize this because I had to work on getting over this myself. That's not to say that I didn't have some legitimate complaints that did indeed impact me in negative ways, but it became increasingly safe and easy to jump to blaming local religion rather than identifying and recognizing how often it was my own laziness or incompetence that led to certain things playing out the way they did.

It's especially a hard pill to swallow when you get older. There's no undo or rewind button, no "earlier save" you can load up. You have to accept the results of your own fuck ups and decide how you're going to deal with it.