An understanding of the world at large is overwhelming versus remaining in a bubble.
most relevant example of “ignorance is bliss”
I remember crying as a kid when I first understood this saying, it made me so mad to know that some people get to remain stupidly ignorant
I recall being pretty upset when I wrapped my head around that saying as a kid, too.
You all sound so humble. I was literal trash and asked “why must I be cursed to be such a geeeeeenius??!”
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Even explaining it sounds like a garbage humble brag — let me assure you I’m no genius. What I meant was, when I first understood “ignorance is bliss”, I was like “well, I’m particularly cursed because I am very smart”
Did you read my fucking journal?
Ignorance is bliss
I would say some of this depends on the reaction of the family and peers. If you are a child in a liberal family and said you need help with depression the chances of you getting help and it getting reported is much greater than if your are in a consecutive family.
I grew up very conservative with a very conservative father. I was severely depressed. My father straight up used to say that mental health issues were not real and believed therapy was bad thing. He once yelled at an allergist that prescribed me Zyrtec because he got it confused with Zoloft. 16 year old me would have killed myself before admitting to him or anyone else that I was thinking about suicide.
I’m much better now, on the whole, but sometimes I do wonder how I managed to get through my teen years alive. I think I honestly was just stubborn. My father takes a much more relaxed view of mental health now, and had even offered to go to therapy with my mother before he filed for divorce (she was worse than him and refused to see a therapist even to save their marriage). But yeah, teens in conservative households are going to toe the line for what they are taught. Even if they know there’s something wrong they aren’t going to ask for help for their parents if they feel their parents reaction will be negative. This was my lived experience anyway.
Happy to report I’m a raging liberal now and my father and I don’t discuss politics in order to maintain our familial relationship. Occasionally I’ll trick him into agreeing with a principal that conservatives say they support and then bring up some legislation from the GOP that directly contradicts that principal. I don’t press it though and he doesn’t seem to absorb it much, but that’s just how it is for people convinced the GOP are the good guys.
I am glad you made it and are doing well.
Yeah, well when you’re so delusional you think climate change doesn’t exist, 10 year old rape victims should be forced to give birth and LGBTQ people who are oppressed deserve it, you’re less unhappy about the state of the country.
So… hysterical and stubborn, unempathetic ignorance is bliss. Until it isn’t. Which is to say - until whatever toxic regressive bullshit they have entrenched themselves upon affects them directly.
Eh, I grew up conservative and I started swinging in high school (then admitted it to myself in college) mostly over gay rights, which were becoming more and more front and center debate at the time. At the time I would have said I was 100% straight and 100% woman, but I had gay friends and I wanted them to have all the things I could have. It was my first ideological break.
Sometimes it you, sometimes it’s the people you care about which get affected. While it might be true that people with low empathy might have to be directly effected, the reality is that for most people it will be simply gaining an affected friend. This is why college makes you liberal, by the way. It’s not the teachings, it’s the fact that you spend time rubbing elbows with real people who turn out to be nothing like the caricatures you were told they would be.
My ex-husband’s kid did the same thing. When they were in elementary school, they told me we should hate a celebrity because they’re gay (obviously parroted from their born-again mom and creepy youth pastor stepdad). Then in middle school, they made a gay friend and their mom threatened to make them change schools, and I think that was one of the first big wtf moments where their lived experiences really clashed with what they were told at home. It kept happening as they made more diverse friends and figured out most of us are just trying to live our lives in peace, not eat babies on the weekends at our interracial sodomy parties or whatever.
Now they’re a young non-binary adult who is full on pro LGBTQ+ rights, pro-choice, anti-racist, etc. I’m sure their mom blames their dad, but all he really ever did was be supportive and clear that in his house, bigotry wouldn’t be tolerated.
Hey maybe it’s because it’s really fucking depressing to watch a bunch of reactionary theocratic nationalist racist imbeciles rig our voting systems so it’s impossible for them to not win and then constantly read stories about how those same imbeciles are doing catastrophic amounts of damage to so many things in so many ways that it would be difficult to name them all?
Maybe because they’re not delusional about the state of the world we live in that these right wing nut jobs seem to be hell-bent on making worse until we’re all living in a post-apocalyptic Gillead. I’m fucking depressed too.
The tiny differential (look at the actual numbers) between liberal/conservatives isn’t much of a story, but it makes for good clickbait and will help the researchers establish themselves in their discipline.
I think maybe the biggest takeaway from this article is that it points out that all seniors in high school have reported steadily increasing depression over the last thirteen years. I’m willing to bet this trend started earlier in the 2000s. And it’s right in line with more and more and more and more and more of all the available money ending up in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Everyone is more depressed.
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It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, ‘Let me out’
Information in general makes people more depressed.
Even frog facts?
“The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive.”
Well its great until you get to the habitat sections and find out their populations have nose dived in the last 50 years.
But things are going so well for everything they care about, how can this be
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Lol oh yes the old 1000 genders that all the kids are being taught about in make believe conservative delusion land where all the schools have litter boxes for the kids that identify as cats.
Shame on the liberal propaganda machine for brain fucking conservatives into making up all this dumb shit to get angry about.
You are right about the virus too…you should french kiss everyone who coughs to show us how dumb worrying about being sick is! That will teach the liberals!
Obviously this guy is just trolling but the idea that conservatives (who one the whole are older and live in more rural areas with less access to healthcare) are more likely to be in good physical shape than liberals (more likely to be young and live in cities where there are wide healthcare opportunities) actually did make me laugh a little.
I dunno I mean if you look at their comment history it’s all “climate change isn’t real” and “why won’t the lefties tolerate my intolerance” kinda stupid shit.
As for the being in good physical shape comment basically look at any footage from any Trump rally and yeah… not so many people in good shape.
I can go on and on. Conservatives are also just happier since they get outside more, are more likely to be in good physicial shape and take on personal responsibiliy.
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How far did you go in school?
He thinks tertiary education is “bad”.
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It’s okay if you didn’t finish high school. We’re here to help you understand the world. ❤️
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We’re ridiculing you because you’re painfully ignorant. You can’t even spell. Who would take your opinion seriously?
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You misspelled “basic”.
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You really think climate change isn’t real? Oh honey, bless your heart in the southern sense of the phrase.
Gosh no wonder you aren’t depressed if you don’t have the burden of a brain.
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Ignorance is bliss as they say.
Seriously after the summer we had you don’t believe in climate change? Really??
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Yeah are people out there in the forest flapping their arms to spread them over thousands of square miles too or is it because half the planet is covered in drought?
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Wherever you’re doing research is the wrong place.
I hope you expand outside your bubble some day, sweetie.
This is actually a useful comment in how well it succinctly distills all the batshit crazy conspiracy theories of the modern far right. It’d be useful to screenshot and put in a Wikipedia article on how propaganda takes over people’s brains.
You need to get out of your echo chamber. If you did, you will see how absurd your comment is.
Is this satire? Are you playing a role? Poe’s Law means I cannot tell.
Hahahaha. Delusional.
In good shape? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Are there stats to support this? If I look at my family & my block it’s the other way around, with one household an exception but that household is a biracial deeply Christian household, so conservative in one way but not politically conservative.
On the rest of it, aren’t conservatives stressed over imaginary things too? Drag queens grooming children, liberals taking their guns, liberal indoctrination in schools?
Good one lol
To put it simply, the happiest family I’ve ever seen in recent times was a couple of conservative couples, some of which were steel workers and some of which were factory workers in the local town. They all lived in the same town and got to visit each other for Christmas then share the day with all their kids together. A big happy family of like 20 people.
The couples? They largely meet at church. They also go to church, and have deep connections to their community.
The conservatives I knew were always going hunting and being outside and getting big ass fun trucks and running around doing their thing in little nearly idyllic communities.
Honestly, I think the prediction here isn’t the politics, but living in a rural area around nature and without the city life and culture that comes with it.
These “ignorance is bliss” people are fools. Conservative groups have big big problems, but I think it would be a mistake to assuming there is no upside to those more traditional ways of life.
But alas. Churches are still rooted in lies and global warning is actually real.
