most people dont care about fairness. most people say thinks but dont mean it. thats what i learned. they talk just for fun and giggles. i only talk to learn or to understand somethink. i dont get why you should talk just like that without a reason. i dont know how to “play” this game named talking lol. and most people dont behave fair.
You know, when I was a kid, I thought developing a strong sense of justice was gonna be my greatest asset. “Stand up for what’s right,” they said. “The truth always comes out,” they said. I figured I’d be the guy exposing corruption, protecting the innocent, keeping the whole rotten machine honest.
Well. Looking back… what an investment that turned out to be.
Turns out the machine doesn’t appreciate being told it’s a machine.
Recent events have demonstrated pretty convincingly that justice isn’t some natural law. It’s more like a coupon. Sometimes it works, sometimes the cashier just stares at you while the building catches fire.
So now I’ve got this finely tuned moral compass that starts spinning like a ceiling fan every time I watch the news. Great. Fantastic. This will never drive me completely insane. Not at all. I’ll just keep noticing contradictions until my blood pressure qualifies as a radio frequency.
But here’s the thing—and this is where they get you. You can’t just uninstall it. Once your brain decides wrong is wrong, it doesn’t suddenly go, “Oh, never mind, I guess corruption’s fine now.” No, sir. It keeps filing reports to a management office that doesn’t exist.
Maybe that’s the biggest conspiracy of all. They convince kids that justice always wins, then act surprised when those same kids grow up wondering why nobody’s enforcing the rules.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go staple another page to the evidence board. Any day now, it’ll all connect.
Please don’t give up. ✊
This is the best description of this feeling I’ve ever read
Since I was a child it has always bothered me when people are not treated fairly. But we live in an inherently unfair world…
Unironically why I embraced activism. Will I create meaningful change to this hellish timeline? No. However, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t try.
yeah and the world is increasingly becoming one I can’t function in. I have to have rules that are at least vaguely equitable but more importantly whatever they are they need to be consitantly followed. Im not good in a corruptocracy.
I would say that without activism we would have no society and no order, and you wouldn’t be able to live anyway.
Tragedy of the commons. Some people just can’t appreciate what went into them being able to fuck everyone else over.
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY.
I’d think it would be the opposite, despair out of the futility of it rather than spending your time trying to achieve happiness while it’s still possible.
The movie Inside Out: “Anger wants things to be fair.”
Me: “Oh, that explains the flashes of searing anger I feel sometimes.”
My anger is locked in a closet. It has to be, or i’d be dead.
Hey kids, consider a career in engineering! Your goals and results are easy to quantify. You’ll hold the device in your hands and it will work.
The laws of nature are harsh, inflexible, and perfectly fair.
You’ll also enter an industry still dominated by men who act like they’re in the 1950’s.
Maybe that’s easier to deal with if you’re personally unaffected.
Unless of course, you have some sort of condition that makes you sensitive to injustice.
Same with computers except if you’re AuDHD you get to multi task while hyperfocusing, and can dig into a new area of tech when you switch partial fixations
Can recommend, pairs perfectly
Using my inflated sense of justice:
It is weird to notice another trait that I thought was a personality quirk to be yet again another neurodivergent quality.
It IS a great asset.
It just rarely sparks joy. Especially when coupled with an open eye. And even worse with an open mind. But it is a great asset.
THERE IS NO JUSTICE. JUST US.
— Death (of Discworld)
i can’t get a job in social work because of this instinct.
Systems suck.
Tfw you realize that justice is not just “a strong sense” but actually a feeling like happiness, joy, anger… It’s damn hard to explain to someone why an injustice “feels” bad when they can’t understand how justice is a feeling.
bullshit is also a feeling that i experience. its like a very literal feeling that i get when people start bullshitting, especially when its directed at me. they start saying things that dont square with my understanding of the nature of reality and i can just feel the bullshit. i dont just trust this feeling because sometimes im wrong and it comes from a desire to really understand the world. the problem is many neurotypical people just want to be right, so when you disagree with them or even just ask for clarification they see it as a personal attack.
It manifests in weird ways sometimes. Like speaking against remarks made toward someone who is objectively a piece of shit only because those remarks aren’t actually true when there are plenty of true things that equally show the person in question to be awful.
Fuck. Ain’t that just the truth.
Assettlers League, assemble!
