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Anyone else feel like the reason why humanity doesn’t bother to fix important issues for a long time is because the people simply don’t care enough to group up and fix them. I mean when I try to educate folks on complex problems they often seem like they don’t want to discuss it and quickly defend the status quo saying “that’s just how things are”

But we can’t keep ignoring these issues because then it could delay necessary progress for thousands of years.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's always been wars, always been slavery, always been sickness.

If anything, we have it much better than before. How do you think it was growing up during the world wars?

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those where just the easy ones out of the top of my head, we both know those are the the miniscule tip of the eisberg.

But dont you think you are just dismissing it yourself by saying we "always had those", sounds pretty apathetic to me.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not to me, it just sounds normal. The reason people feel apathy is because there is a difference between expectation and reality that is very big for them.

It's the thought of "I need the world to be different for me to feel good" that is causing the apathy. You can change the thoughts on this and feel much, much better by being very grateful for having so much choice as a human being to find things you enjoy.