Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
So, we've covered misogyny, homophobia, you can't agree on whether vegans are dangerous, what else? You folks are working yourselves into a dark, paranoid, frenzy. If you want to find the darkness, it's there to find. You don't even have to look all that far.

Humans only have one skill: The ability to see patterns, even when they don't exist. It's all we're good at. So, when your life isn't all you were hoping it would be, you look out there and see some malign pattern that is conspiring to bring you down. It's always 'them', it's never you.
For me personally, I don't worry about it as much as I try to use what I'm seeing in the world as a lesson. In the best case, I can use it to get ahead in my own life or at the very least, not fall into the traps set by the powers that be and screw up my life too badly. I don't cry about it or blame the state of my life on these things. I am solely responsible for the state of my life. The more I know about the world around me, the better choices I can make. It's really as simple as that for me. I have no desire to spend my life worrying about all this. I just want to use the knowledge to my benefit.