Oh geez. That’s not a great development.

Neurology is a funny thing.

Not that I’m aware of. I’ve known some shady characters, a few went to jail for robbing a gas station. I don’t know of anyone being extremely violent, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Why would you be using AI in the first place?

Good thing I’m still not interested in buying one, eh?

“What will you tell your children, when they ask you: “What went wrong”? How will you paint a picture, of a paradise lost to eyes that know only a wasteland? How will you justify, justify watching the world die?” Parkway Drive - Dark Days.

It depends on your definition. If you mean tearing up, it was this past weekend. If you mean open sobbing, I think it was a few months ago. I want to cry all the time, but it’s actually very difficult to do, even when I’m upset. I wish I could turn it on when I feel like, but it just doesn’t work that way.

I think a psychologist would say that if you really can’t find common ground, it’s best to agree not to talk about it.

Indoctrination is highly effective. Your parents were raised in a place where toeing the line is the norm and questioning those in power is traditionally a great way to ensure you disappear. Russians are deeply indoctrinated when compared to western nations because that’s how their society has been set up since 1922. The Soviet leadership ruled by suppressing any dissent, violently and without remorse. Just because the Soviet Union no longer exists, doesn’t mean their ways of doing things disappeared too.

The only way to change them would be to engage in an equally sophisticated program of indoctrination: deprogramming as it’s called. Since you lack the resources of the Soviet Union, it would be a much more difficult task, especially since your parents are now older and their brains are less changeable. They were indoctrinated as children and by a very prolific system. Reversing that now, by yourself, is a tall order.

I’m sorry your parents were failed by their leadership, it’s truly a shame.