#because im... well... going insane i think

[gayhornythoughts]

Alright time for my thoughts on the root of this problem. I think a lot of it is inthat USAmericans arent Insentivized to learn culturally. Knowledge is not a virtue here, its seen as a road which leads to Financial Gain. Im a USAmerican, and I do believe we as a whole are culturally insensitive fuckwits who know nothing on aversge, but I think its in-part due to values pushed on us since childhood. The whole fucking country is a cult of its own.

"You live in America!! The land of the FREE!!! All you need to care about is us!! All those pansy wimps out in places like "Europe" and.. other countries.. they dont have what we do! We have power! Education! Wealth and Pride!"

Thats what most fucking americans here are like. Its insufferable and exhausting. The reason they dont research outside this shithole is because they think that the place they live is so perfect that no one elses lives matter. The world revolves around them.

In their mind, all the information they need is on how to fit in to American society.

"Everything AMERICAN MADE is SUPERIOR to anything from ANYWHERE ELSE"

This is something you hear a lot. That American Manufacturing for one reason or another is higher quality than any other. The closest competitors you hear of here is Sweden for Furniture (IKEA brand) or Germany for anything... generally Engineered. I think the IKEA thing is more a testament to IKEA's quality and advertising prowess than anything, but that's besides the point.

I think this mindset is why so many American reactionaries state that what they see outside of the country is Wrong. We're heavily sensationalized from birth with excessive amounts of propaganda about how amazing our country is. Our flaws are almost NEVER made the focal point here unless it's via an artist or writer whose art inevitably becomes another fucking brick of fuel for the capitalist machine.

So, ive established my theory on the mindset. American propaganda and American Sensationalism are heavily ingrained into our society as a whole. Education and knowledge is seen as a tool to get more income rather than to truly learn about the world around you. So, with the majority of Americans not looking into the outside world (They live in the best place after all, why would they?), how do they learn about countries outside of their own?

Why, through movies and shows of course!!

Everything Americans know about outside their country generally comes from Television and Film. Or at least it was before smart phones got in the hands of every living human on earth.

Media depicts countried as highly stereotyped typically. Mexico universally gets The Yellow Filter and is shown almost exclusively as dusty deserts in TV and media. Old worn down roads with outdated infrastructure and watering hole towns which rely on bucket wells. France is depicted almost exclusively as Paris (the sensationalized paris mind you, not the real one. I hear its kinda shit there tbh, but im not knowledgeable on the topic). Germany and Ireland are shown as just.. alcoholics and bars everywhere. That kind of shit.

So. That somewhat explains people who are now in their mid twenties to late fourties and why this is impacting them, but what of the younger generations whose primary media has been mobile devices?

Well, Im not as confident on this as I am about the media stereotyping thought, but hear me out. I think due to the attention economy online being so intense, with advertisements being so aggressive and clickbait being so genuinely insane, why would a child reasonably go "Hm, I could watch 'I went down this Dark Tunnel and found THIS INSIDE?!?!?! NOT CLICKBAIT' but I would rather go to wikipedia and read up on the history of Brazil."

Part of why school is blamed might also fall back to presentation and teaching methods? A lot of historical teaching methods are extremely dry, and all of it is so fucking sanitized and propaganda laden that it MAKES SENSE that most people growing up here would HATE to research about the world. Most peoples favorite parts of school were the ones where they did ANYTHING BUT SPEND TIME IN CLASS!! The most tolerable classes from what I came to understand were the science classes for chemistry labs, math courses for at least building upon itself somewhat, and english for potentially having decent fiction/nonfiction to read up on.

Also, something I noticed was that Media Literacy was NOT BEING TEACHED!! People werent being taught how to extrapolate meaning from texts through most schooling, typically we were TOLD the meaning and told any other thoughts we had were wrong! This would build into the lack of analysis skills and the lack of desire to research!

Overall, really to TLDR this:

USAmericans are raised in a cult environment from the ground up Systematically. Societal views here revolve around individual potential for the raise of capital. Knowledge is not seen as inherently valuable, rather being a method for obtaining financial gain. Alongside this, our schooling system primes students to Not Question Anything They're Shown, spoonfeeding us propaganda in our history courses as well as in our English courses. Besides the propaganda, the teaching methodologies provide answers without room for flexibility or personal interpretations which inhibits the development of curiosity and the desire to learn about the world. Due to this lack of curiosity, the Average USAmerican only absorbs any information from the world via media which typically presents heavily flanderized and stereotyped. While the aversge person could learn, they have no Drive to due to a mix of propaganda and lack of attention span.

im american and i knew that like in kindergarten so i think some of you are just stupid sorry

[anexplosionofchaos]

so. guys. that new bsd chapter???? how we feeling??? we alright??

(insert deep breath)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ATSUSHIS FACE. hes so fucking conflicted he wants him gone but still thats practically his FATHER. ohhh shoot me 87 times instead that would HURT LESS. his eyes being scribbles make it worse harukawa you are EVILL

i love the combination of the titles. dont even i love it so bad the chapter titles were pieces of the full sentence..... ajdflgjkg im Going Insane. this isnt okay im not okay im going to crash out so hard

oh.

oh.

this is insane. do you all know how insane this is. whos face, (or words) come to mind instead?? instead of the mentor akutagawa has despised yet idolised for half his life?

SHUT UP. SHUUUUTTTT UP.

SHIN SOUKOKU FANS WE ARE BEING FED. WE ARE FEASTING. these past chapters have been SPOILING US.

akutagawas reason to live, to keep going, its atsushi.

do yall know how absolutely insane this is. im tweaking out So Hard like this is INSANE. SHIN SOUKOKU WE ARE SO BACK. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BACK. IM CRASHING OUT TWEAKING SHIN SOUKOKUUUU

THE FUCKING MOMENTS. THE FUCKIGGN MOMENTS WITH THEM FIGHTING ASAGIRI AND HARUKAWA WHAT HAVEE YOU DONEEE. guys atp stop writing the fics canon is all we need 😭

the fucking QUOTES atsushi said to him??? about true strength???? might as well have chucked a brick at me.

im so insane this chapter isnt okay

THE LIGHT COMING BACK INTO HIS EYES????? AT THE MEMORY OF ATSUSHI????????? THIS ISTHE MOST QUEER THING EVER SHIN SOUKOKU YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

no but do yall know how wild this is. him getting that "light" in his eyes because of atsushi. do YALL KNOW. his eyes being dark for most of the manga (showing how dark his soul is) BUT THIS. THIS IS THE BRIGHTEST THEYVE EVER BEEN. and its at the thought of saving ATSUSHI. HIS RIVAL MORTAL ENEMY. no this is wild actually

harukawa my lord and saviour i love you.

HIS REASON TO KEEP FIGHTING. HIS REASON TO KEEP GOING. hes LITERALLY fighting god to get atsushi back. literally fighting something practically unkillable to get his jinko. asagiri i fear this is the hardest you have ever cooked. shin soukoku this is the queerest you've ever been. we are winning so hard. my brain is a jumbled mess of shin soukoku i cant go live my life when this is happening.

NEW CHARACTER EVERYONE CHEERED

they look so cool im genuinely so hyped for them. bsd is getting insane i Swear. im actually so fucking excited for what happens next i feel all electric and tingly

genuinely this chapter was insane. im going to go mentally scream in my head all day and not think of anything except sskk now. goodbye

[silverskye13]

My brother in law let me borrow Sonic Frontiers [also read: asked me if I had access to a PS5 and when I said yes, handed it to me and said "play this"] and now my two biggest gaming nightmares are merged into one! [Fast paced gaming mechanics and open world map structures]

Anyway, I've been playing for 8 hours.

[wasyago]

the brainrot won

[gyrmirr]

can i tell you that i'm empty?

[ecto-biologist]

Does anybody else see my vision

[crystalpallette]

ringo has never ever looked bad in an alt but my god she's hitting never before seen levels of Help Me lately

[myokk]

jimmy page warmup sketch for today😇🙏

[moeblob]

[rmbunnie]

“I just can’t bear to see Jason Todd in Batman comics after what he did to poor traumatized neglected baby Timmy” I can! I think he should do it again

[eightspringdays]

sometimes im just vibing like a normal well adapted to society individual and then I remember the meronia height difference and I just

[bowsbar]

pillowbook thoughts because ive been thinking about them all day!

[shakingparadigm]

horrendously sick and twisted btw

[kheprriverse]

Y’all thinking about an older Ares has RUINED me

[thepandalion]

finally watched the latest Severance episode

what the fuck

[quaranmine]

On Wednesday before I gave my presentation I confessed to a new employee that I was worried it would be too long and she brightly told me her life hack was to just let AI rewrite things for her. She said I should put in all my talking points and ask ChatGPT to give me a five minute exactly presentation. I was like....how is the most polite possible way (since this is a new colleague I shouldn't get off on the wrong foot with) that I can express that I will Not be taking this advice. Ever. I told her that I didn't think we were allowed to use ChatGPT at this job (we most certainly are not, it is a nightmare for any type of protected information) and also that I prefer to write all of my own work. Despite my best efforts the last part of that was still passive aggressive, lol.

Something about being a writer makes it so that it's almost offensive to me for someone to suggest I use AI to do my work instead? Like, the day I reach the point where I let AI write something for me is the day y'all need to be checking me for brain damage because clearly I'm losing it