I’m Sick to Death of Ranting

but I have to get it out, and for that, I’m sorry.

Harry Hogg
6 min readSep 8, 2024

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Image: Jenny — what kind of world will Evie sse?

When we are children, life is a lot more simplistic; we can interact with the world for the first time. The first steps you take, the first tooth you grow and the first you lose, your first day at school, and your first friend.

When we are children, we feel things differently, possibly because it is the first time we feel these feelings. We are, in effect, untainted by social programming; some are subjected to this early in life, e.g., religion.

Not all social programming is terrible, but all is corrupt because it changes our viewpoints on what is morally right and what is not.

Social desensitisation occurs primarily through two main factors: multimedia, television, newspapers, magazines, movies, etc.

The other main factor is popular opinion, which is popular thoughts or beliefs in society that impact the overall attitudes and actions of the people of the society. Populism. Trump.

As children grow into adults, they are bombarded with these attitudes and beliefs, and some will inevitably come to their conclusions about how they believe; for a large part, the positions they come to at a young age are constituted by the majority of the factors of desensitisation they are subjected to in…

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Harry Hogg

Ex Greenpeace, writing since a teenager. Will be writing ‘Lori Tales’ exclusively for JK Talla Publishing in the Spring of 2025