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adjl posted...

A political opinion is an opinion on the state of society and the world. That's it, and that means politics are indeed "the world's problems." Even the enlightened centrist position of "I don't care about politics" is a political opinion, because it amounts to "I'm okay with the status quo and would rather ignore it than try to change it in any way." Whether or not expressing opinions on the state of society will actually change anything is easy to question, of course, since nice words on the Internet don't do much, but the position you're promoting is one of ignoring the world's problems so you can enjoy consuming media more mindlessly. That is your prerogative, and I quite understand that it's more enjoyable than flailing futilely against issues you can't actually change, but you need to at least recognize that that's what you're doing.

In truth, I fully expect that almost every piece of media you've consumed has had some sort of political message, and there have definitely been politically significant issues at work behind the scenes. You've just chosen not to acknowledge it.

I like how you assume anyone who doesn't care about politics is blissfully ignorant and just doesn't want to be sad by approaching 'real problems'. It's also cute that somehow those who don't care about politics think the 'status quo' is great. Nice generalizations there.

I tend to do the same thing. For example, all people who choose to be in politics for a living are criminals and horrible people. All of them, zero exceptions. I don't care what side you are on. Those who cheer them on like some professional baseball team and only cares if their team is winning are even worse. It's a lot like religion or war. You pick a side and learn the mantra and repeat it over and over without having to think. Then you find the enemy and de-humanize them so you can hate large groups of people across the board.

If you want to feel like you are solving the world's problems that is your prerogative, but you need to understand you are just wasting oxygen. If everyone focused on their own problems instead of trying to fix everyone else's the world would be better off.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.