The the level of condoned, unapologetic, unembarrassed insatiable greed my species demonstrates and celebrates makes me root for the success of our many self-inflicted crises.
People used to acknowledge the plague that the deeply broken greed class were to society. We then decided embrace the darkest demons in our nature rather than conquer them.
I can’t root for the home species if this is who we are, sorry. The humans with the fewest to no scruples profiting off the death of children who already had nothing, to the cheers of private shareholders and sycophant peasants everywhere. We know better. We claim to be better in empty rhetoric. In actions though, our species is made up of proud monsters, their enablers/worshippers, and their victims.
If we were a society that cared for one another fighting climate change and the like, it would be different, but when they arent building luxury climate bunkers to escape as they continue fucking the planet for private profit, any action those in power take to stave off problems like climate change are just in service to prolonging/not disrupting this cycle of cruelty/dominion/exploitation.
We know better. We claim to be better in empty rhetoric. In actions though, our species is made up of proud monsters, their enablers/worshippers, and their victims.
I’ve been saying this for years. The “civilized” world acts like we’re better because we’re not cutting people’s heads off for perceived crimes, but we’ve clearly just exchanged that for the far more sophisticated (and far more fucked up) mental and emotional torture.
Just look at how the US treats prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. We have never been “better,” it’s a fucking lie we tell ourselves to justify it all. The US especially is great at twisting language to justify it. It’s not “torture” it’s “enhanced interrogation.”
Everyone wants to be the hero of the story, fighting a righteous battle against the evil monstrous Enemy^tm.
The truth is no one is 100% a hero, and no one is 100% the villain. We all act within the confines of our humanity. For some this is monstrous acts, for others its righteous ones. But no one is exclusively one or the other, we all spend most of our time somewhere in between.
Definitely tending towards righteousness, but I would still say the majority of his life was spent being a regular human.
Which, I think, was the point of his show. He was just a normal man who could treat others with compassion. Putting him on a pedestal and treating him like a saint means that its nigh impossible to live up to him. And I think he would find that a terrible message to send.
We are all human. How we choose to show that humanity defines us, not the humanity itself.
I think it’s worth noting… It’s not just the 1%. Every time we buy something without asking important questions about “who’s behind this and what did they do to make it happen” we contribute to the monster. We made this possible by showing billion dollar corporations they can rape the world and we’ll still buy their product because it’s $3 cheaper than the company doing it the right way and showing companies that want to do it the right way, they better fall in line or get run out of business in the name of efficiency.
I’m not saying every purchase needs to be done with caution, but I do think we need to abandon the “I got this for 3 dollars cheaper!!! Hahahaha” bargain bin shopping culture. The “I buy the best value” culture that doesn’t ask about the workers involved shares no small portion of the blame. If you have the chance to think about these things, do it. (If you have the means) show the shareholders that your integrity can’t be bought for 62 cents off.
Cheap ultimately isn’t cheap. The working class and the professional class failed to heed that warning and it’s nearly destroyed the middle class as a whole.
The the level of condoned, unapologetic, unembarrassed insatiable greed my species demonstrates and celebrates makes me root for the success of our many self-inflicted crises.
People used to acknowledge the plague that the deeply broken greed class were to society. We then decided embrace the darkest demons in our nature rather than conquer them.
I can’t root for the home species if this is who we are, sorry. The humans with the fewest to no scruples profiting off the death of children who already had nothing, to the cheers of private shareholders and sycophant peasants everywhere. We know better. We claim to be better in empty rhetoric. In actions though, our species is made up of proud monsters, their enablers/worshippers, and their victims.
If we were a society that cared for one another fighting climate change and the like, it would be different, but when they arent building luxury climate bunkers to escape as they continue fucking the planet for private profit, any action those in power take to stave off problems like climate change are just in service to prolonging/not disrupting this cycle of cruelty/dominion/exploitation.
I’ve been saying this for years. The “civilized” world acts like we’re better because we’re not cutting people’s heads off for perceived crimes, but we’ve clearly just exchanged that for the far more sophisticated (and far more fucked up) mental and emotional torture.
Just look at how the US treats prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. We have never been “better,” it’s a fucking lie we tell ourselves to justify it all. The US especially is great at twisting language to justify it. It’s not “torture” it’s “enhanced interrogation.”
Everyone wants to be the hero of the story, fighting a righteous battle against the evil monstrous Enemy^tm.
The truth is no one is 100% a hero, and no one is 100% the villain. We all act within the confines of our humanity. For some this is monstrous acts, for others its righteous ones. But no one is exclusively one or the other, we all spend most of our time somewhere in between.
Counterpoint: Fred Rogers
Definitely tending towards righteousness, but I would still say the majority of his life was spent being a regular human.
Which, I think, was the point of his show. He was just a normal man who could treat others with compassion. Putting him on a pedestal and treating him like a saint means that its nigh impossible to live up to him. And I think he would find that a terrible message to send.
We are all human. How we choose to show that humanity defines us, not the humanity itself.
When we’re hero worshiping, that’s also a projection of our shadows.
Friendly reminder that Ron DeSantis worked at Gitmo.
I think it’s worth noting… It’s not just the 1%. Every time we buy something without asking important questions about “who’s behind this and what did they do to make it happen” we contribute to the monster. We made this possible by showing billion dollar corporations they can rape the world and we’ll still buy their product because it’s $3 cheaper than the company doing it the right way and showing companies that want to do it the right way, they better fall in line or get run out of business in the name of efficiency.
I’m not saying every purchase needs to be done with caution, but I do think we need to abandon the “I got this for 3 dollars cheaper!!! Hahahaha” bargain bin shopping culture. The “I buy the best value” culture that doesn’t ask about the workers involved shares no small portion of the blame. If you have the chance to think about these things, do it. (If you have the means) show the shareholders that your integrity can’t be bought for 62 cents off.
Cheap ultimately isn’t cheap. The working class and the professional class failed to heed that warning and it’s nearly destroyed the middle class as a whole.