I saw this :reddit-logo: post and it got me thinking. Maybe it's the intense sleep deprivation, but I can't even muster the energy to be angry. I'm just sad. I know that individual choice is largely a psyop, but if at least a third of the populace actively wants things to be worse, how can we change things for the better? I know that there are many, many loving and wonderful and kind people all around this country. But as we're continually worked harder and harder and grow more and more impoverished, even the kindest souls will burn out. And what are we all up against? Not just the :porky-happy: elite, but the average swine whose main enjoyment in life is pissing off and upsetting anyone who wants things to be better. What can we even do against this?
It’s just rugged individualism and survival of the fittest culture. They genuinely believe it’s a kill or be killed World and think they will be killed if their beliefs become culturally unpopular.
I don’t believe the nostalgia aspect that people were ever nicer though. People were just less alienated and couldn’t record others most evil moments. So in your memory it was a nicer time.
Hobbes and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
This explains the social anaphylactic shock these groups experience when they sense a threat to their dominant position in the hierarchy.
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Ironically, their firm conviction that the world is a “kill or be killed” place does more to make it one than anything else.
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Only thing I mentioned was being “nice” to each other. Other things were materially better, but American culture has been an asshole culture since at least the Television (if not the talking pictures, if not forever).
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agree to disagree.
You name me a year in the last century of US history, and I’ll name you national asshole behavior