There has never been a better time for explorers. People lament that there's nothing 'undiscovered' anymore, but after studying STEM and digging into history I've learned that the fact we currently have access to everything those early explorers left behind for us gives us an unprecedented window into what our world actually is, and how it actually works, if only you can look at it with an earnest desire to learn.
Mark my words: Those who actually manage to rise above the din will grow to shine more brightly than anyone has for thousands of years. There is incredible opportunity in hope right now.
Do you realize how blatantly obvious it is to identify someone who has put exactly zero effort into understanding religions? Just because you surround yourself with virtual yes-men doesn't make your perceptions correct.
Keep that up and you might end up making a fool of yourself, like all those seniors who went out to protest Tesla dealerships, not realizing that today's youth don't actually like them or their ideals very much, having to grow up in the fallout of their progressive utopia.
Outside of your echo chamber, that is actually what they are known for. You're going to be in for a rude awakening soon if you insist upon continuing to refuse to engage with the actual, real, world.
Because 'Left' and 'Right' are concepts used to split the voting population into two roughly equal groups which can be placed against each other to balance the other out, attempting to achieve economic stability. Where the divide needs to be made in order to achieve two roughly equally sized groups is different for each population.
Because irrational hatred is so ubiquitous that it goes entirely unquestioned (and even defended as you're likely to see in response to this post), almost nobody seems to be aware that the scientific method was actually developed by the Catholic church as the religiously approved way to explore the mysteries of our world. The view that Christianity is rigid and exclusionary just plain isn't supported by reality. You can certainly find bad examples and pretend you've "proved" something, but there are far, far more good people who aren't brain dead zealots.
what I really miss from that period of the internet was that children could use it safely
Uhh... my largest grievance with how the Internet has been designed is that it was never safe for children to be on it, yet children were thrust onto it en-mass long before adults even really understood what it was. And still people are ignoring the massive problems it continues to cause, specifically for the healthy development of children, as society is circling the drain.
I think someone calculated the time it would take to read every single one you're expected to agree with in normal every day life, and it worked out to needing 76 work days to read everything you "agree" to in a typical year.
Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.