Everyone is so afraid of a different point of view. If you say something they disagree with, you immediately become a threat and they will try to neutralise you. They don’t respect the fact that everyone has a different viewpoint/reality. Society has become so toxic that if you present a rational argument that differs to theirs, you are a liar. Why can’t we just agree to disagree instead of launching character assassinations? Why does a different viewpoint have to be so scary to so many people?
Surely, if you’re a reasonable person you can take a little criticism.
A lot of people genuinely struggle with it. It’s as though if they come up against some friction, they can’t stand it because then they’d have to look within and question all they perceive about their own reality.
I don’t mean to be harsh because I’m guilty of this too when I’m super stressed out, it’s just a human thing. But it has become so widespread and dominant.
Most people keep themselves constantly busy and the socially constructed norms which they have to follow because they don’t have time to make their own definitions for what makes people what they are make them collectively mentally ill.
That’s why films like Joker are considered so dangerous to the establishment — there are so many disillusioned with the way things are run that if people wake up and realise it, things will get very difficult for those in power.
It’s OK to be wrong. I might be wrong about this. I’m expressing a point of view and there’s nothing wrong with having a different point of view to somebody else, it just means you’re willing to analyse and question the world around you. And that’s very important in a culture like what we have today.
