So if Putin calls it the Anti-Plague Research Institute we can be pretty sure they’re actively creating plagues right?

Which ones what?

There are plastic in our tears now, scientifically

I kind of get what you mean, but it doesn’t really apply to me or people I know.

If you’re well educated and decently informed you can make an educated guess on the veracity of information 9/10 times before even looking it up and verifying it - which takes a few seconds these days.

I already stated that earlier; seeing celebrities get cancelled, and seeing people try to cancel each other on social media.

Not really, it’s an amalgamation of different experiences leading to a collective sense of the cultural attitude.

It’s obvious to everyone else I’ve talked to, if it isn’t to you I don’t think examples will change that.

Soapy season

So in other words, you don’t trust your own brain to verify the difference between truth and lies.

That’s weird?

How would you know? Did you ask for one, or did you go straight to assumptions?

Right now, are you proving that we’re not living in a Suspicion Culture?

I mean I can’t vote further left than possible in a two-party system without throwing my vote away and inadvertently support the right.

I’m not an ideologue, I don’t vote based on tribalism, but on practical solutions to problems.

I’m not fixated on progressiveness for the sake of progressiveness, nor on conservatism for the sake of conservatism.

I want progress when something isn’t working, and I want conservatism when things are working as they should be working.

But there isn’t any sources or evidence to show that a person you don’t know isn’t evil, nor should you assume that they are and treat them like that from the outset. That’s borderline mental illness

You think being curious and reflective will lead to something bad?

This is exactly the impression I have as well.

Appreciate it man

But most people just break, don’t they? few become diamonds

But I agree in principle

I can actually see again without sunglasses

I’m with you on that. I don’t feel like any of the choices I have will bring about the world I want anytime soon.

Perfect dinner spot: isolated enough that no one can hear you, open enough that you can have a look at a street or something with people going on, so you have something to talk about. But that’s more of a date for me and my partner, because we already know each other.

But what else do you want me to do?

I don’t know what to say to this, it’s like talking to a religious fanatic.

Like a religious inquisitor or something. Like you can’t see the human anymore.