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I had a coworker complain about how everyone is an asshole these days. I asked for an explanation. He said the guy at the laundromat last night was a fucking dick, and so was the server at dinner. Then, the cashier when he bought coffee was an asshole, and so was the bus driver. I asked him what was the one, single unifying factor that tied all those people together...?
I said it then, and I'll say it again here: Markus, you are the asshole.
The number of people I talk to who mindlessly regurgitate the "fact" that "most people are terrible" seems to be going up. Most people don't act like they think that's true, but once you really internalize that kind of misanthropy, assuming every interaction will be negative is how you go through the world.
Your assumptions about the world greatly impact how you interact with it, and when you stop looking for anything good, you'll only see good things when they're shoved in your face. It's easy to justify your general malaise because you tell yourself everyone is like that.
Current political discourse certainly doesn't help either.
Yes, things are going to shit (at least in the US) at speed. Getting upset at some random person (or even a large group) who might believe some dumb shit isn't going to change anything. The people pulling the strings listen to the money, not to the masses and their beliefs, no matter how righteous or horrendous those beliefs might be.
And even if the people who believed stupid shit were the root cause of all the problems, unless you legitimately plan to eliminate them, you will at some point have to learn to interact with them to move things forward. You can't just bully Trump voters into submission. They practically get off on that idea that they're somehow the underdog. And like most people, they're people. Not horrid monstrous troglodytes 100% through and through.