• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nothing like a good 12 hour shift at the Smoothie King to build character.

    At this point I can’t tell if these guys are seeing how far they can push things or if they actually believe this kind of thing is good for their state. Both are stupid but neither would be surprising.

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Many of them are just old and have cognitive dissonance about their own experience as a child. They simply believe that children today have the identical, fantasized experience they think they remember. Not only is what they remember untrue and most likely a collage of half-memories, stories from other people, and propaganda, but they have no incentive to scrutinize their decisions and beliefs because they’ve been in a comfortable insular community for most of their life that rewards them for thinking this way.

      I say old but you don’t have to be that old to be brainwashed by a religious community and a comfortable job.