Strange to see people blaming their fellow citizens, when it was a certain beloved King that started off his reign by hugely cutting the tax-rate of corporations, leaving them with the ‘trickle-down’.
Somehow rulers manage to keep the people divided by keeping them blaming each other rather the root-cause.
KInda stupid question, innit? If I still have it, I don’t think it’s a misconception. You’d have to tell me.
But then, anyone can make a mistake. Doesn’t make you a bad person. I make mistakes every day. I shouldn’t have said stupid, I should said… whatever they call it now. Meathead?
One word solution: tolerance. If you expect others to live and believe as you do … or else … there’s no solution. Just centuries of feuding.
Historically, tribes, city-states, they all had problems just as or more severe than ours.
We have living examples - today - of countries in the world which are faring very well. (Oh of course, some would say, they’re all doing something wrong. Uhm, no.)
This guy is visiting many places all over the US, month after month, spending his time (often for days) talking to the natives and really digs into that diversity.
Save up a stash of Interesting audiobooks, podcasts for times you’re feeling like it’ll take an hour or more. (Not -too-interesting.) Boring ones once you feel like keeping your eyes closed.
I make a place look lived in by living in it. I might leave some small stuff lying around until I get to it. No biggie. Or I get tired of it where it is. Not tidying a whole lot … just enough to be orderly. A magazine or two here or there, half read, waiting. Coordinated furniture? RU kidding? A pet plant (named) that needs water. Some of souvenirs here and there. Pix on the fridge.
Seldom more than 5 or 6 before using Firefox to ‘close tabs to right’. It keeps a short history of recently visited URLs in the toolbar, and a deeper, searchable ‘library’ of visited sites going way back. Longer term interests I save to Bookmarks.
Most of us also ignore that ‘the world’ is a model in our heads that we’ve created with our senses. Some may make better models than others. But what does ‘better’ mean? Stubbing your toe less, getting sick less? Sherlock Holmes?
Also ‘the world’ is very complex and constantly changing. You’re either revising that model or, at some point, you’re living in the past.
Unlike the guy the history books call ‘Alexander the Great’. A drunken mass-murdering King who never stopped sharing his misery until the day he died. Some hero!
There might be a slim chance. But in the words of mid-20th-century writer Robert Anton Wilson,
“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.”
Eventually there has to be one, so try to hold on to that idea.