If I remember right, some of the earliest dated signs of "civilization" we've found are skeletal remains where a broken bone was set and allowed to properly heal. Even in the very beginning, the thing that first set us apart as more than apes with fire, was devoting resources to care for people who weren't able to produce those resources themselves, even if just for a time in that example
Totally. in a very real sense, "inhumanity" as a descriptor for the kind of society that libertarians want isn't just a metaphor. They want us to be less than human.
All the while, they think it's the opposite, assuming they actually buy into the whole "capitalism is human nature" line. It's the kind of thing that really makes me think about the concept of "re-education". I know it's a meme most of the time it gets brought up, but at the end of the day, something has to be done with people like that. And executing everyone to the right of an arbitrary line definitely isn't it lol
Totally! I've re-educated myself, come to think about it, and I'd I be dumb to think that the process is over. I'm sure there are still plenty of :brainworms: lurking around in my noggin, just waiting to pop out and surprise me.
I mean I definitely have no tears to shed for dead fascists, and I have no qualms about it when it comes to people taking up arms to harm people or prevent a revolution. But in a post-revolutionary context (especially in the US), there's going to be millions of people who hold those beliefs, or ones like them, who just didn't want to or couldn't fight for them. Those are the ones I mean, those who are objectively reactionary, but who don't pose a direct or imminent threat to people or the transitional state. Idk if the answer is "re-education camps" or a cultural revolution, or what, but there's something that can be done in that situation.
If I remember right, some of the earliest dated signs of "civilization" we've found are skeletal remains where a broken bone was set and allowed to properly heal. Even in the very beginning, the thing that first set us apart as more than apes with fire, was devoting resources to care for people who weren't able to produce those resources themselves, even if just for a time in that example
Totally. in a very real sense, "inhumanity" as a descriptor for the kind of society that libertarians want isn't just a metaphor. They want us to be less than human.
All the while, they think it's the opposite, assuming they actually buy into the whole "capitalism is human nature" line. It's the kind of thing that really makes me think about the concept of "re-education". I know it's a meme most of the time it gets brought up, but at the end of the day, something has to be done with people like that. And executing everyone to the right of an arbitrary line definitely isn't it lol
Totally! I've re-educated myself, come to think about it, and I'd I be dumb to think that the process is over. I'm sure there are still plenty of :brainworms: lurking around in my noggin, just waiting to pop out and surprise me.
For sure, I still sometimes react to something the way my old :LIB: self would have, and have to stop myself and re-evaluate things
it can be :shrug-outta-hecks:
I mean I definitely have no tears to shed for dead fascists, and I have no qualms about it when it comes to people taking up arms to harm people or prevent a revolution. But in a post-revolutionary context (especially in the US), there's going to be millions of people who hold those beliefs, or ones like them, who just didn't want to or couldn't fight for them. Those are the ones I mean, those who are objectively reactionary, but who don't pose a direct or imminent threat to people or the transitional state. Idk if the answer is "re-education camps" or a cultural revolution, or what, but there's something that can be done in that situation.