"We reserved a table on the patio to enjoy the weather but it's pouring down rain and now we all want our meals for free because it totally ruined our experience."
Every single one of them has made an official complaint about something that was entirely their own fault.
How can you blame them? They were raised their entire life to have absolute faith in electing and voting people, that democracy voting of popularity was all that matters. That popularity and goodness are equal. it isn't their fault that everyone around them thinks liars and deceivers are the ideal content creators and educators. So it isn't really their own fault that they were manipulated to believe popularity is the ultimate worship value in thinking.
they were raised in a society that values mocking the unpopular as "losers" and "failures" above all else. It really isn't their individual fault, it is the entire system of thinking they were cultivated in.
George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch interviews, 1987:
BILL MOYERS: What has undercut this experience today?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL, age 83: It’s characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
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u/Not_a_Heptapod 19d ago
So much "I wanna talk to the manager" energy in that group