I don’t know how to put this succinctly, but I read recently about someone feeling like they’re an outsider looking into the world of “normal” people. I feel a bit of the opposite, like I’m a “normal” person just realizing how shit it is to be part of the problems in our world right now-I’d much rather be an outsider to all of it so I couldn’t accept responsibility. I’m just as much of a contributor to everything bad as any other peer in the world. It’s not like I can pinpoint one certain thing I do that makes me feel that way, but I realize how often I judge other people for thinking they’re the perpetrators in everything wrong with society, when I’m not doing anything that differently from the rest of them. It goes the opposite way in that no matter how helpful I think I’m being to contribute to some “greater good,” I still feel I’m doing the bare minimum, and feel culpable in my smallness and ability to enact long lasting in the way I’d like to see the world.

  • fluxion@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    We are normal, but normal people like us aren’t the ones constantly trying to ratfuck society to get ahead in politics/business and wield their power to further their greedy personal ambitions, so the odds end up heavily stacked against us. It’s easy to feel like outsiders because that’s the entire strategy, to turn right/wrong upside down, to have a fascist party that tried to steal the election point at Democrats and call them traitors, to takeover the government and defy courts and calls Democrats “lawless”, to take normal sane media like AP and NPR and call it leftist propaganda.