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> So folks, practice talking to people. Much of what's wrong in the current world is actually loneliness, having no outlet for your expressions.

If I had a penny for every bizarre theory people who ruin the world believe about who/what is actually ruining the world.

My favourite was an interview with Jerry Springer. He also had a theory of what's wrong in the current world and none of it had anything to do with what he did.

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> My favourite was an interview with Jerry Springer. He also had a theory of what's wrong in the current world and none of it had anything to do with what he did.

FWIW, later in his life there are many findable examples of Jerry finding fault with what he did--since I recalled seeing him express mea culpas I took the time to give you this early (jocular) example from 2014 :

https://youtu.be/eBL00CcBF40?si=PXXc5oJk9atlWKjv

"Jerry Springer Apologizes For His Career" -- Dish Network (~1 minute clip)

Well obviously. Someone saying that the world is "being ruined", and theorizing on the causes of the same, implies that the speaker is experiencing the world they inhabit as changing in a manner that's unacceptable to that person.

Nobody goes around thinking "people like me are making the world unlivable for people like me"; even if that's a useful and sometimes even a correct notion - what reason would anyone have to entertain it?

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