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Joe Rogan pod w/Lawrence Krauss
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Is one of the most interesting things I've ever listened to. Topics include, black holes, multiverse, AI killing us and whether or not that would actually be a good thing. It gave me a brain boner, highly recommend.
They were talking about conspiracy theories and Krauss brought up the human need to blame others. How the world is an unfair place and bad things happen and how it's easier to blame someone for this. He brought up the Salem Witch Trails as an example. These people had their crops die and rather than thinking a bad thing happened to them it was easier to blame someone for doing a bad thing to them. And I think I had an epiphany.
Isn't this describing the whole social justice movement? The world is an unfair place where bad things happen and these people are looking for someone to blame. It's your white privilege, it's misogyny, it's always someone else doing the bad things to them when in reality it's just the world.
Thankfully we've advanced to the point where we don't hang and stone people to death but this is the Salem Witch Trails right? I don't know it makes sense to me but you guys can tell me if I'm being an idiot.
They were talking about conspiracy theories and Krauss brought up the human need to blame others. How the world is an unfair place and bad things happen and how it's easier to blame someone for this. He brought up the Salem Witch Trails as an example. These people had their crops die and rather than thinking a bad thing happened to them it was easier to blame someone for doing a bad thing to them. And I think I had an epiphany.
Isn't this describing the whole social justice movement? The world is an unfair place where bad things happen and these people are looking for someone to blame. It's your white privilege, it's misogyny, it's always someone else doing the bad things to them when in reality it's just the world.
Thankfully we've advanced to the point where we don't hang and stone people to death but this is the Salem Witch Trails right? I don't know it makes sense to me but you guys can tell me if I'm being an idiot.
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Witch trials were a thing all over Protestant Europe at that time. In Latin Europe, they just had the Inquisition, which was pretty much the same thing.
But the Social Justice movement is a little more than "people are mean to me." It annoys the shit out of me also...but bigotry and racism is something that can be changed (I think anyways) and we shouldn't just throw our hands up and say "that's just the way some people are."
You're on to something there. Human nature is to immediately look outward when something bad happens to them, their loved ones or a group of people that they feel similar to or identify with. There are certainly still injustices in this world that happen from time to time. However there are millions of people out there that still look at historic events such as slavery and WW2 internment as examples of why the white man is a privileged boogeyman. Even though we've had labor laws that have prohibited it for over 50 years, these same people are blaming Men because Women aren't paid on par as Men. Without really looking at any circumstance in different situations.
The reverse of this may be illegal immigration and the some white people blame them for stealing their job and the subsequent issues that happened in their lives after such event. When if the person would truly look inward at first, they could dust their selves off and find another job.
See: voter ID
Also, when he acts like a meathead you can tell it's a cringe-inducing act to try to look cool