I’m at such an intersection of privilege that I don’t think I considered politics in any meaningful way until my early 20s when I got hit with the libertarian propaganda and realized that maybe the police and army are political actually.

I always hear of people doing such great work and being so political in their teenage years ago I wonder if it’s more common for someone to not engage in politics until adulthood line myself or if it’s truly just my position in life that allowed me to be ignorant for so long.

I remember buying a shirt with “fuck politics I just want to burn shit down” when I was around 17 and honestly edginess was I think my entire ideology at the time

  • ephemeral [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    and drank the “technology will make everything better bro trust me” kool-aid

    ugh same. got caught up in the ridiculous tech-optimism of the early-to-mid 2010s. I thought self-driving cars and VR were the frickin’ future. it’s hard to imagine now but there was so little public criticism of big tech back then

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It’s really insidious. It feeds on the elitism top engineering schools have, too… that smug feeling of “we know calculus we’re so special, if engineers ran the world instead of lawyers we wouldn’t have any problems”. In hindsight… yuck. I would’ve clowned on my past self so hard that lil’ Trashcan would’ve transition earlier.