by SilveryBlueSky » Sat Aug 03, 2024 4:55 pm
I am usually never angry.
I am much more familiar with sadness, hopelessness, and regret. Anger is, to my understanding, an attempt to displace my underlying sadness onto something else, to lessen the burden of it in that moment.
This understanding has led me to avoid becoming angry for most of my life. I have always tried to approach other people’s opinions and thoughts with compassion and understanding.
However, right now, I am seething with rage.
I am done trying to be compassionate and understanding towards people with no intention of changing their mind or admitting that they’re wrong.
I am sick of maintaining my composure for people who, on a fundamental level, have no respect for the people around them. They won’t hesitate to beat vulnerable people into the ground but cry about being “oppressed” as soon as the victim even alludes towards standing up or defending themselves.
They claim to act out of “concern,” but actually want to maintain as much control over other people as possible, because being in control allows them to feel powerful. And this power prevents them from needing to question their rigid and unmoving worldview, which they have built their entire perception of reality upon.
They want to feel like they’re right; the couldn’t care less about “facts and logic,” because as long as they don’t have to reevaluate their comfortable position in society, they can convince themselves to ignore the very real problems in our world as they pick and choose which sources and studies are “real” and which ones are not.
And, somehow, they decided that human rights are up for debate, because they can’t have someone that doesn’t fit within their rigid ideology of what a person should be. It’s so infuriating, and now, this very ideology is seeping into the veins of online comments everywhere; I don’t know if my words will even have an effect, with how far this poison has circulated.
I feel so infuriated because, in the end, there’s nothing I can do to stop this. No matter how many sources or studies I cite. No matter how many times I beg for these people to have basic human empathy. It feels as though I’m throwing words in an empty void, with those who need to hear it most being too apathetic or too spiteful to even bother.
And for the people most affected by this, I’m sorry that I can’t do more for you.