What grinds my gears

The American left has for many years now claimed that there's a "cult of personality" around Donald Trump, among his voters and followers. Someone pointed out a rather astute and telling observation about this. At many recent political rallies by Kamala Harris, when you listen to what the crowd is chanting, it's "Kamala, Kamala, Kamala!" What does the crowd typically chant at Donald Trump rallies? Do they chant "Trump"? No, they chant "U.S.A, U.S,A, U.S.A!" So, which one has a cult of personality again? (It's also quite telling what these people at the opposite ends of the divide consider most important: The candidate, or the country?)

I have written previously in this blog about the interesting psychological phenomenon that can be seen in many YouTube videos, especially those recorded in the United States (but in no way restricted to that country), where people will come to the YouTuber, who is recording with a camera in his hand in some public place, and question him about it, sometimes quite aggressively so, telling him that he has no permission to record them, and sometimes even alleging that it's outright illegal to do so. Some people may get so utterly upset about it that they become outright aggressive and even physical, and may outright attack the person, who is doing nothing more than standing in a public place with a camera in his hand. Sometimes the police is called (and especially in America it varies a lot what the police does, but quite often if the guy is just standing on a traditional public forum, like a sidewalk or a public park, they don't do anything, because that's clearly not illegal

Passengers, released in 2016, is a sci-fi movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The premise (and first half) of the movie is very interesting and intriguing, and could have ended up being a really good sci-fi movie, but ends up being a horrendously unethical movie. What makes a movie "unethical"? What makes a movie unethical is how it portrays unethical evil actions by one or more of the characters in the movie. It's not a question of whether the characters, even the main protagonist, do evil things. That's completely normal storytelling and to be expected. The villains and antagonists often do evil unethical things as a matter of course, to create conflict and for the protagonists to overcome and defeat. Some more daring stories are not that straightforward "good vs. evil" and it may even be that the main protagonist of the story is the one doing a completely unethical evil thing. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it was a lapse of judgment, maybe