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this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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You don't think much of your sibling do you?
I mean if they listen to Joe Rogan, they don't seem to think much of themselves either tbh. That counts as self-harm.
Would you?
Depends on whether one wants to practice love or control I guess. Much easier to maintain efforts to control another person when you can convince yourself they’re contemptible.
Their sibling might be young. Young people are gullible idiots.
Their sibling is 27 in this case, I think well past the age of "gullible young".
You’ll find that folks can be gullible at any age. My step-kids, who live with their dad in Texas, are in their early 20s and get about 99% of their information from either YouTube or TikTok. For the youngest, church plays a big part. Generally speaking, they are good kids, but they are both gullible AF. I’m betting OP’s sibling has a similar diet of media consumption.
Yeah, the unbiased style of debate/news reporting is very dangerous.
What are you gullible about?
I’m sure there’s something, and I try to remind myself when talking to the kids that they’re figuring out the world around them all the time just like i did when I was their age. It’s really hard getting them to look outside of YT and TikTok for information. Awhile back, the younger one got into the Atlantis mythology and started talking about it a lot. Theories of Atlantean origin are pretty common in white supremacist circles, so that was kind of stressful!
Not to mention the entire premise of the post being, essentially, "I don't approve of the entertainment my sibling chooses to consume. Please make suggestions for me as to other entertainment that I can then use to regulate said adult sibling, removing their entertainment that I don't like and forcing them to consume something I find more acceptable."
Like...I think Rogan's whole thing is stupid and most I've talked to who like his stuff are similarly ridiculous...but to go from that to full out "I plan to take it away from them and force them to do something I find more acceptable" is really quite a leap.
Or maybe it's "I love my sibling and don't want to see them slip further into this conspiracy rabbit hole. How can I offer them similar content that isn't as harmful?"
“Could it be loving and listening to my sibling? No it’s the media that’s the problem!”