One of the things I don't understand is the liberal-synthetic left-regular citizen's disinterest in living true to the ideals they seem to profess. I get that many people are hypocrites or venal or greedy or power-hungry. Many but not most. Most people aren't evil. Most people don't want to live a lie, or have to lie to live, or have to believe lies to live as they believe...

So wtf is going on with overnight adoption of Ukraine flags or relentless neocon anti-China populism or obsession with the day's news gossip to the exclusion of anything that matters? Why don't people get bored of the bullshit?

Why don't people who want a better world - or a safer world - prioritize this decency when it comes to who they vote for, what they listen to, where they get their information? I don't get it.

The only answers are unsatisfactory. It's always generalizations, abstractions, dismissing individual agency to fit this or that group into some sweeping stereotype. I've never heard anyone nail why reality matters so little and fantasies matter so much. It's unnatural, even in the face of our vast propaganda machinery.

Oh well. If anyone can explain why - to give an example relevant today - nobody gives a f**k about nuclear omnicide; and yet spend hours every day consuming news, forming convictions, believing in good over evil; I'm all ears...