Name one thing you don't believe in, but you wish was actually true.

[nabdad@lemmy.world]

U.S. democracy

[iseth@lemmy.ml]

Trickle-down economics.

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

Don't worry, people can change.

Trust me, I used to be a huge piece of shit

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

Personally im in the they came, they saw, they said "wtf", they left, camp.

I mean lets be real. If i were an alien i wouldnt wanna uplift humans. Id want us to stay on our little rock and not bring our drama to their solar system.

[thedeed@hexbear.net]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-cats-can-tell-when-youre-speaking-to-them/

[sickos@hexbear.net]

[emotional_engi@lemmy.zip]

Our benefactors.

[thericofactor@sh.itjust.works]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History

[christian@lemmy.ml]

I don't remember where I read this quote originally and I can only paraphrase it, but observing people living in a capitalist society and concluding that human nature is self-centeredness and greed is equivalent to observing workers in a factory that is poisoning their lungs and concluding that human nature is to cough.

[christian@lemmy.ml]

There are only finitely many prime numbers and I will not hear otherwise.

[tc_209@hexbear.net]

The revolutionary potential of the American people.

[djdarren@thelemmy.club]

No one can stop you ordering a huge steak and a glass of water.

[bademantel@lemmy.world]

That's a nice quote, thank you. I looked into it. It's by Andrew Collier:

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

Primary goal is to survive in the environment you are in, how many might have a desire to escape that environment but lack the ability to do so? Leave it all behind and live in a cabin in the woods isn't exactly an unheard of idea.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

And your irrefutable proof is...?

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

Some will

[tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The average person having empathy

[sas@beehaw.org]

Ghosts. My 18 year old cat passed end of last year and she was one of my best friends. I just wish that instead of me knowing that the shades of her I see are actively produced by my mind (i notice me doing them) that she'd really spook around me, that i could just embrace the little shade and show her that i still love her. Well now I'm crying at work

[bademantel@lemmy.world]

The issue, as I see it, is that most people struggle to envision a society beyond capitalism. Capitalist ideology is embedded in every aspect of our lives. It appears in our mindset, in books, movies, and even in children's television shows. The narrative that anyone can succeed if they work hard enough, and that poverty is simply the result of laziness, is both powerful and pervasive.

Furthermore, the idea that everyone should live in isolated cabins is neither a realistic vision nor a desirable goal for society.

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

The notion that "facts matter".

I've spent my entire life believing that facts don't care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn't require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion...

By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they "facts" are "whatever is shouted the loudest".

It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn't even playing with the same fact-sheet... How do you even begin to fight that?