Personally I don’t believe any amount of education will help, as long as humans believe that:
We are all just complicates machines, and the soul and spirit is just an ancient concept invented by naiv people who didn’t know proper science yet. That leads to the view of humans being mere objects and factors within a system (such as capitalism AND communism). Humans are good for working and making profits, or fighting wars. They are spare parts for a system.
Whenever the economy hits bottom, jobs get paid so bad, that many can’t have a decent living, unemployment is on the rise, etc. then people become anxious. When people are anxious and afraid they look for somebody who is fault. That is people who are different from them. So they might have been educated in being tolerant, but when life gets too scary and difficult, they forget about it and want „normal“ things.
That is a very simple explanation and the problem is much more complex, but I thought those two points can explain a lot.
Here in Germany you can see how people get angrier every day (no, we are not as rich as everybody thinks), and you can feel the violence growing more and more everyday. In the summer the government is planning laws that are as bad as back in the Hitler days. I am not exaggerating! So people will be even more afraid and will look for those who are „fault“. It will be foreigners, homosexuals, lesbians, and the other 50+ genders, and sick people. I’m not joking. The government is just planning to release a law, that will be able to put away depressed people, if they could be a „threat“ to someone. And if you believe something else that the government, then you must be crazy and depressed and have to be locked away. It’s crazy.
So as bad as it sounds already, it will get worse.
When studying the WWII era, I read a lot of books, watched documentaries and discussed the subject with many friends. We all thought that would never happen again, we are a lot smarter now. But when I talk to people in the street it is like seeing in real life the idiocy of those past days come back again.
I could tell a lot more, but then the text will get tooooo long :)
Embrace yourself, because we are heading into a very bad direction! And that is unbelievably sad.
We MUST learn to see each other as more than just complicated machines, and put humans first before economy. That is one of the most important steps. And that will be very, very difficult to reeducate people.
But I hope you will still enjoy the evening. It’s not good to just think about dark things :)
Have a pleasant evening
I agree with you! Your input is very solid. And I also see that people become more and more aggressive, not all Europeans are rich and successful, working class is getting short in salaries which bring to dissatisfaction and government simply need an enemy to unite all workers and make them work for less money. But for me, the main question is not even why this is happening again? The biggest concern is how to resist?