I don't understand why you would feel troubled by the political forums. You are young. You didn't ask me but I will give you my 2 cents (which means my thoughts) on the matter anyway. Politics.... Is fraught. Because it is built on the past. To understand it, requires understanding history. weather you participate or not I would encourage you to read the political forums. Because one day, the decisions that get made will be made by you. You have the opportunity to study and learn about the current choices being made in that forum from the current people making them. You can watch and question history in real time. This is something perhaps no other generation has had the ability to do to the same extent and in the same way. One day, to not end up like the current USA, you will have to make the best decisions you can. Understanding how choices were arrived at in the past or in this current moment before it even becomes history can be amazingly useful to that end.
The internet was in it's infancy when I was a little older than you. I never got to ask why people make the choices they made and created the world that they created that I had to live in and later make choices about. This fact is a huge piece of what makes your generation special and more able to create a better world than all of the generations that came before you. What a shame to feel stressed rather than curious. Perhaps now isn't the right time to have opinions, that is of course for you to decide though. Perhaps it is the time to participate through inquiry seeking understanding of the choices and views presently about. Then follow them through to their gradual philosophical conclusions and consider how you feel about them. Do you agree? To what extent? Why? The thing to keep in mind.... Is that even adults are just muddling through life same as children. The only differences are we can think around corners about consequences, and we pay taxes, and we have explored with curiosity already. But there is no end to where curiosity can take any of us. So there is always more exploration to do. Still having done some, we have noticed some patterns. The only other difference is that as adults, having had that, we are responsible for the decisions we make. But responsible to who? The answer to that question I have always felt is to greater society, but also to the future who we are presently building a world for based on the choices we make right now. So, honestly youth input on these issues and questions seem to me to be highly pertinent and their engagement seems something that would do us all good.
A woman named Abi Andrews, wrote a book. It is a favorite of mine. Some people love it others hate it. It maybe isn't something that is quite age appropriate yet. But in a few years it will be. It is on the issue of feminism, where feminism meets environmentalism. It is called The Word For Woman Is Wilderness. It discusses some major pieces of the history of science how we know what we know about the world and the universe, it tests boundaries both internal and external, and at times moral, spiritual, and what it is to be a woman in the world we live in. It explores environmentalism and feminism, and a wide array of view points on where we are now in the world we have built for ourselves. You are still a bit young for this but I gave you the title anyway. I am hoping you write it down, and put it in a time capsule, along with a personal letter to yourself about how you view life and the world and yourself as you are today, that you can then bury in your back yard and dig up when you are about 17 or 18. Because I think that will be amazingly interesting for you, and because this book may hold some serious value to you when you are ready for it. In some respects, the book is highly political. But as you get older, you will understand so much is decided by politics. So many limitations we set. So many freedoms we give...... Understanding who is deciding these things today and the decisions they are making and what they base those choices on is critical to learning to make such decisions yourself one day. And one day, there will be no one but you and others in your age bracket left to make them.
Thank you very much for explaining it!!! π I thought about looking the meaning online later but it is now super clear. BUTTT in the beginning when we have discussions for example i feel i can say anything what i think and even if it is stupid or maybe wrong bc other people know more about it they are respectful and super patient. And i try to read what everybody writes like for example when @diogenes_cask writes like above or when we have discussions about statements with @Etienne and @Lianshen and they are patient to explain a lot of things. And the same is of other guys like @Pennarossa2024, @Simone724 and @Sabri_KC. And i think most people here are like that. Only sometimes it can be a stressy discussion if it is about political forums. So i try not to be in those forums!!! π But it can also be ok. π
