But yes I used to think like this.
Going off on a tangent from an ancient thread...one of the things that annoys me about modern society, particularly with social media bullying & how memes can turn a person into a Solo-style carbonite freeze for the rest of eternith seemingly overnight, is that they don't allow room for people to grow. We all have stupid opinions & flawed worldviews at some point in our lives, and for the past twenty+ years, the Internet has allowed those things to become a matter of historical record...which is fine, except that it doesn't allow the perception of people to change. I cringe when I read my old forum threads sometimes when I'm doing a search looking for information on a particular topic, but that's just how personal growth works...when I joined the forums back in 2004 I was asking things like how to setup wireless routers & whatnot, and fast-forward 15+ years later & that's what I do for a job now, lol.
I think the Internet & people in general need to be more forgiving about allowing people to grow up & move on from their mistakes. Historically, if you did something stupid & got famous for it at grade school or in your local town, as you got older & moved out, people generally forgot about it. Now, if a kid makes
one mistake, you're plastered all over the Internet forever & ever...I feel for those kids who commit suicide over that stuff, because how would you like to wake up & hear about that one thing you did that one time forever & ever for the rest of your life? Horrible, just horrible. Monica Lewinsky is probably the poster child as the first Internet-bullied & permanently-locked-in person worldwide...it was a cultural thing back then, but she came out with a really fantastic talk about shame a few years ago that really changed my perspective on not just her situation, but the whole situation of Internet shame in general: