Transcript
Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim It's Wednesday when I stretched out, that means it's slightly after its june 22nd episode for june 22nd 2000 and 22, and today I wanted to talk about a conversation I had recently and have had multiple times. I'd say.
Just this idea that we have, I think we have individually different perspectives on how many people are out to get us, how many people are lying to us, how many people are betraying us. Maybe just kind of a perspective on how many people don't care about us. And I think it comes up in conversation a lot in very indirect ways. You know, all these people are lying to you or these people are trying to cheat you or you shouldn't trust anyone or and again, I think it comes up in many different, percentages and the two that come to my mind and this is obviously just oversimplifying it, but I think, We tend to fall into thinking that either 99% of the world is out to get us and 1% is the people who really care about us or. 1% is out to get us and 99% really cares about us. Obviously there's, you know, different percentages and it's not just so black and white. Um, but this idea of like our is the overwhelming majority of people out there, are they lying and cheating and trying to hurt us or just indifferent to us, or is the overwhelming majority, do they care about us and wish us well. And I think.
I wonder if that alone can explain so much about people's political beliefs and especially as it comes to, uh the extreme level with which people have certain political beliefs and the attachment that they have their beliefs. I would say, personally, I genuinely are generally assume most people are trying to help me. Most people care about me and if they're not actively caring about me, it's because they care about themselves and they're not trying to ignore me or hurt me. And most people try to play by the rules and that most people are trying to look out for the people around them etcetera etcetera.
I've talked to a lot of people who seem to be on the more extreme ends of the political spectrum, who seem to have the opposite perspective that, maybe everyone in media is lying to them, but and and everyone in government is corrupt and everyone in all business leaders are corrupt and a lot of small business owners and workers, they're all lazy and corrupt and, you know, nobody cares about you and you know, you gotta find a fight for yourself and don't trust anyone. And I mean, I think it plays out politically, but also this is things that I've seen outside of politics and just in normal life in different relationships and.
So I wonder if I'm coming from a perspective where I believe the vast majority of people are kind and loving and care about each other, and other people are coming from the perspective of the vast majority of people aren't kind of loving that they're they're backstabbing and cheating and lying and trying to hurt each other or I just don't care about each other, then how do we convince the other person about political beliefs? How am I supposed to convince people that dr Fauci cares about people when they say no, he doesn't care about me or vice versa. How am I supposed to convince somebody that politicians are not totally corrupt and enriching themselves off bribes when they believe that they are totally corrupt and enriching? You know, in doing many things to enrich themselves or to basically ruin that person's life. Um It just seems like I get frustrated because I and I I and other people can get stuck in this loop of almost trying to rationalize somebody else out of. The fear and distrust or the confidence that we have, basically trying to rationalize somebody into trusting or distrusting somebody and it doesn't seem to work that way. I mean, if I think about trying to convince somebody in a relationship, romantic relationship that their partner is cheating on them and they don't believe that the partner is cheating on them, there's almost nothing I can say to convince that person that their partner is indeed cheating on them. However one defines cheating and vice versa. If that partner is not cheating on that person, there's almost and the partner and the person believes that the partner is, there's very little I could do to convince them that the partner is not cheating on them. And so I think so much of it comes down to that emotional level and that fear and that anger and the betrayal or vice versa. Or conversely the the hope and the confidence and the safety that we feel with people and trying to convince them to think the other way, when they're feeling in opposite to that, can I think spin us in circles and so I'm trying to look at especially politics more this way. If you know, why do I trust so many people and other people seem to distrust so many or why do I trust group X. And they trust group Y or vice versa.
Um so really just trying to explore this a little bit more and yeah, and also trying to think, okay, so where does that trust come from? Where does it come from a deeper level the trust or distrust, and how much of it has little to do actually with the politics and more to do with other things that have happened in our personal lives that we project onto political figures for, maybe not protecting us from these other people or for, who knows, reminding of us reminding us of other people anyways, it's late. That's that's good enough for today. I'll talk to you soon.
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