the most upsetting thought-seed that keeps germinating in my mind, that I can't seem to shake or remove, is the idea that almost ALL of human behavior (outside of pure subsistence) is about playing games of social control. That it's so typical that most people don't even see it.
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that the main guiding principle that most people use to drive their decision making, on a conscious or (more frequently) unconscious basis, is that they desire to control the thoughts and behaviors of other people.
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this isn't necessarily malignant in all cases (though a whole lot of cases are), just that everyone is a control freak. the baseline attitude of "just let it be" is almost entirely absent in our society.
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nah, the let it be advocates are invisible and uncounted in your stats (let me be)
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