It’s one of the most frustrating human qualities to interface with. Not everyone is like this but majority are. It’s pathetic.
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It’s brutal. Additionally painful is explaining to other people how your views have changed on certain things because of reading or listening to or watching x,y, and z and then being treated like the crazy one.
Being rational and trusting the best available credible evidence makes you appear to be insane to the rest who are actively living with the official lies as their truth. The irony of all this is not lost on me.
It’s a sad disposition.
Thankful for Nostr where others going through the same things can lean on each other.
Amen. While I’d say that trait is way below the societal average on here, it’s still quite prevalent among many.
Definitely still present here but I’ve also connected with people on Nostr who have also independently found credible evidence that leads them to the same conclusions I’ve found. Something that I’ve found very rare among people I know irl. It’s been refreshing and heartening.
I’ve reconnected with a lot of people from hs recently and most of them have not changed their views on seemingly anything.
I don’t understand how tf is that even possible. irl eco chambers?
That is the conundrum.
I’ve reflected on what I used to believe and where I’m at now and I’ve effectively done a 180 on everything I thought I knew as a young man. It’s alienated me from what you’d call a “normal” life and “normal” people but to me that’s not the priority. The priority is finding truth and accepting the most credible information that leads there, despite the difficulties that creates.
It takes courage to go against the official narrative and what (almost) everyone in your life is saying is true. It seems like this is the battle of our time and not many are suited to fight it. But keep it up, I think truth-nodes are more important than they outwardly appear.
Amen to that. Even simple things like explaining why you are healthy and fit, why you’re able to not care so much about your job, why you seem to be at peace when everyone else is agitated, etc. People notice those things and they will want to know the “secret”. Continual reminders that societies ills are caused by the government, not the other side, that inflation is destroying poor people, not rich people, that living in fear is how the govt wants you. Just keep beating the drum, and people around you will start to see it.
Fully agree. The people in my life who I’ve got into Bitcoin saw my conviction, heard me talk about it occasionally (when it made sense to talk about it) and they trust me as a person and my track record. So they eventually asked me about it and then I got them setup from there.
Example is everything. The same has happened with fitness and diet. People see me and learn my age and eventually ask “what do you eat” or “what sort workouts do you do” and it goes from there. In a few years I’ll be retired and that’ll lead to another slew of conversations piqued by example.
Spot on. Love it. Keep up the good work.