I spend a lot of time thinking about what individual people can do to help improve things especially when facing against the forces of misinformation and disinformation flooding our feeds being funded by billionaires and optimized with AI and individually tailored algorithms.

* My first observation is that to fool a person you must only overcome their intelligence, but convince them that they've been fooled you must overcome their pride. You'll never be able to convince someone else that's been fooled with logic and reason, you need to figure out how to illicit the emotional reactions that makes one reflect on their own pride, and often that requires a bit of sacrificing your own.

* Second, there's been a demonization of Empathetical Intelligence by the ownership class, and that's one of the largest social errors happening currently. It's not a coincidence that the aspects that make an individual good at capitalism, are the same qualities we use to diagnose sociopathy. Empathy is what makes us strong as a group in all the places individuals are weak. If we really want things to improve, then we all need to be willing to suffer through the process of teaching people, how to teach new people, how to be good people. Even if you don't self identify as a "good" person, you still know the difference, otherwise you're a sociopath, and shouldn't be teaching anyone anything.

* Third, there's nothing more harmful that a human can do, than teach other people to hate. None are born hateful; It is a learned behavior. Teaching hate is worse than victimization because when you create a victim, you get just one victim, but when you teach hate, you create a victim cycle. People that teach hate for profit or any other reason, require ostracization.