You might know how to make gingerbread because your grandma knew how to make gingerbread, and taught you how to, while the person expressing negative opinions towards trans people, likely wasn’t taught to do so because their grandma held such opinions (after being attacked by one…?), but more likely because they were exposed to such views (or, perhaps more precisly, such behaviour) by media.

Arguably, this makes so-called culture wars, not to do with culture at all, but rather trends: the person in the habit of reading right leaning media will tend (or trend) to mirror the behavoural expressions (which aren’t really expressions – as in descriptions of their insides or lifes – but reflections – as in mindless repetition of behaviour seen on tv) of people on right leaning media.

This begs the question, how much does a typical individual actually belive in – as in how many convictions do they have for which they’ve investegated and found arguments for on their own -, and, further more, how much seriousness should we give to people, seemingly, having very different and, seemingly, potentially harmful believes, if they aren’t really their’s at all, but more like acts on par with babies putting a finger in their nose because their brain makes them do what they’ve seen other babies do?

It’s quite a relief to think that there isn’t much (true) disagreement between people (because they don’t actually believe most of what they seem to express believing), and most of the media cultured belief being pushed that there’s conflicts and polarity, is in fact a collective delusion among people that haven’t done much investegation of their received beliefs, and that the world is actually a quite peaceful place, where people from wastly different (or similar, for that sake) places, are in fact shockingly similar in their true (as opposed to received) beliefs.

There’s around 200 countries in the world, meaning 200^2 (400 000) potential (unilateral) wars, yet there’s only like in the scale of a dozen ones.

In the scope of the last millenium, we’ve gone from conflicting superstitous sects (religions) to collaborative empirical institutions (universities, corporations, governments); in the last century, we’ve gone from multiple superpowers fighting for world dominion to (relatively speaking) inconsequential bickering over minor patches of land (no current superpower has people in traditional war on the territory of another, which was the recurrent norm until recently); in the last decades we’ve gone from tyrants getting away with killing millions to not even government officials getting away with mistreating people without getting shamed on the internet the same day.

I’m hopeful about our future, because I think the present, and recent past, has been unimaginably positive in it’s development, and that most (unfortunately) commonly held believes of the world having been and being at crisis, are upon a fairly short degree of scrutiny, shown to be ungrounded delusions for which we should hold roughly as much respect as we nowadays do for those that used to claim we’ll all go to a place of eternal tornment called hell if we don’t do as some people in robes say we should.

The moral is to go out every day to enjoy your life and explore the world – be kind to get along with other people so they can do this too – because sitting inside in your nervosity is really neither proportional nor related to current affairs, and living is so much more fun being done in the real world than simply being thought and talked about in a fictional one.