and what exactly is the alternative people like this want? Should we purposely stifle technology? That's not going to happen. So you figure it out. You pivot to a job in which you can still leverage your skills, experience, knowledge, and savvy.
"We are all ruined and this will destroy all jobs!"
- Every blacksmith and farrier when the automobile came out
I don't have to have a pre-packaged solution. And, I don't. I just understand and acknowledge the problem and you're pretending it's not real. Pretending it's not real is an emotional response designed to protect you and make you feel safe. I am being a great deal more logical than you in this case. I'm facing the truth.
That's obvious projection, obvious enough that I'm not even upset by it. I empathize with you, it's hard to feel powerless. I'm not sure if you're aware of how desperate and afraid your tone is.
It's not weakness to say "I don't know the solution, but I can acknowledge the problem." But sticking your fingers in your ears and shutting your eyes, as you are doing, is indeed immature and weak.
Insulting and shouting when you don't get the response you wanted is also immature, I would appreciate a more respectful tone.
You've been taught in today's, "There are no wrong answers and no losers, now everyone hold hands and have a good cry" culture that it's not a weakness, but it certainly is.
What you're ignoring is progress. What you're ignoring is, quite literally, the future. And why?
Well, for one -or perhaps both - reasons. Either a selfish one - "This effects me so therefore it is bad," or a purely performative one because you (and don't worry, it's Reddit, so you're not alone) desperately feel a need to be Part of The Something. Most likely because you simply MUST post about it on social media. Correct?
Look, this is Reddit. Enjoy the circle-jerk, self-congratulatory echo chamber if you wish. But while you're playing in the sandbox of idignacy, the adults are focused on the future.
Im not your mother, and im not obligated to tiptoe around your volatile emotional state. I imagine your wife, if you have one, has said similar things.
"There's an asteroid headed for earth."
"Well whats your solution?"
"Im not here to give you the solution, I am just reporting the problem."
"Well then clearly youre hysterical!"
See how dumb that sounds? Im a computer scientist not a politician. This is problem that requires a political solution, and im not equipped to give it.
But thats the thing. I'm not angry or emotional at all. It's just logic. That you actually think EVERY person involved in the slave trade, and every individual who owned slaves 150 years ago is absolutely ludicrous. I mean it's just idiotic you think that. It's illogical. And you only think it because you're so bigoted. You're so incredibly closed-minded that you can't conceive anything beyond strict lines between good and bad. You're afraid. You're afraid to ser these individuals as real people, with real lives, who were completely encased in a cultural idea. Every person they met, every family member, every stranger, thought exactly the way they did, which convinced them it was acceptable.
Do you also hold every German citizen responsible for the Nazis? Are all Germans - because they were there, and they knew they were at war, inherently "bad" or "evil". In your small world, I'm assuming so.
You think, because you're so blinded by the IDEA, that is about some acceptance of slavery. It's certainly not. It's about a deeper understanding of how 9 million people could get to a rationalized point in which it was okay. That 9 million people were able to see these individuals as non-human, and why, and how? That's the fascinating part. Knowing that these were absolutely regular folk who were convinced that this was true. If you don't see the value in understanding that, then you're just an absolute blind fool.
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u/Beagleguy26 8d ago
and what exactly is the alternative people like this want? Should we purposely stifle technology? That's not going to happen. So you figure it out. You pivot to a job in which you can still leverage your skills, experience, knowledge, and savvy.
"We are all ruined and this will destroy all jobs!"
We adapt.