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If this guy is still alive, I bet he'd really appreciate you telling him he was right. It can be exhausting trying to get people to see the issues in society and having everyone just constantly write you off as crazy. Since you're here posting this instead of reddit, you've probably had that experience yourself since then.
I'm not sure honestly it's been over a decade. Yeah, reddit got weird, bots and people paid to down vote popular opinions. It's like you get a bunch of down votes and nobody has a reply. A lot of it has to do with text being misunderstood. You can write a text and someone will think you mean something else. Also it's more fun here, it's like stepping back in time when people actually wrote to each other on a forum. And yeah, anything that touches change or addresses an actual issue, you're a radical.
I do wonder if it is that as a society at least in these generations.. We lost cause we never did a really good effort into teaching media literacy to everyone, many arguments i hear i think it boils down to lack of media literacy.
We made the effort to make almost everyone be able to read but the effort to find miss direction, biases and manipulation not so much
I disagree with the idea that the younger generations (gen y+later) lack media literacy. I'd argue the opposite, actually. The older generations rarely question anything and much of what they were fed was/is clear propaganda for their respective governments. The younger generations spend most of our time online in spaces like this talking to each other about what we believe or consuming media that is divergent from the status quo.
The comment we're both replying to is a good example of this, I believe. They mention that wanting to change things is often deemed "radical". I'm an anarcho-communist, not only would the things I believe be classified as radical, I identify with that label myself. And yet there are clearly many more people now who do not identify as radical who seem to share my beliefs. Don't know what generations y'all belong to, but I'm willing to bet you're not boomers and Xers seem to be more nihilistic than anything.