People who never question authority bother me. Scare me? Are part of the problem?

Yes, yes and yes!

They are part of the non-thinking culture. Believe all police officers, doctors, teachers, ministers (if religious) etc. ??!!

THIS IS WHY THEY GET AWAY WITH THINGS.

I hate to include teachers because I know parents can be from hell. But they have authority, and believing them unquestioningly is reckless. Okay, I meant foolish. I’m not going for social desirability, so I’ll be real and say, ignorant if the person has the capacity to know better.

In 2026, some people still believe police officers, judges, and doctors “just because”. Even if a person doesn’t realize that people in positions of professional authority can lie, there’s PROOF that judges, etc., have lied. So, what is the excuse again?

Don’t uphold the status quo by never questioning people. The status quo hurts people. Maybe not the people most care about though.

Even today, many still want to uphold the status quo. This is just an aside, but I still notice it in many upper-middle-class people. And of course, many rich people.

I can’t respect people who automatically believe someone just because they’re in a position of professional authority. Trust them without question. Just give them all the power. This is what people are doing. No reason to respect this.

I’m not asking why Taylor Swift is popular. Excuse me for talking about things that really matter. No offense to the person who wrote that TS article last week. Maybe pop culture is their job. But how does that mean anything at all? You don’t want people writing stuff like me to be famous. So, try again.

What’s next: people pretending to care about people when they just want to bash AI? Hint: You can bash AI without claiming to care about people. Because I think the world would be very different if people cared about strangers. Another good one, though.

Every entry should just say: why don’t people think beyond the surface, but that would be less rageful. And very short. But I’d have a lower heart rate.

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I didn’t finish many books in August like I predicted. I picked a bad time to read a book for review. It’s a slow-paced book.

^{The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan. (Fiction). My rating: ★★★ (really 3.50 stars). Only 336 pages, but it feels much longer. Books like these are too action-adventure for me, I guess. And too many main characters. Most authors say who the narrator is when constantly switching, but here I had to guess. Even with an intentionally unidentified narrator, an author can tell who the other 7 narrators are. Btw, I don’t always do content warnings when I track a book on Storygraph, but this book had the most content warnings I’ve ever checked off.} 

^{The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine. (Fiction). My rating: ★★★★ (4 stars). This book is what most would call a domestic psychological thriller. Secrets, marriage, tension. The usual. Quick read.} 

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