if you are blaming “we” or “the electorate” or “the American people”, you are not doing anything useful.
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@interfluidity I blame human nature for not allowing us to have nice things. Am i useful now? ;-)
@admitsWrongIfProven you are always better than useful. you are not reducible to what others can use you for. the analysis attributing our difficulties to human nature may not be so useful, but that doesn’t say anything about you.
@interfluidity Always nice to see that my jokes are appreciated.
In a similar vein, i want to explicitly state my appreciation for your kind of takes, always on the more philosophical side instead of the rather exhausting doom and virtue signaling stuff.
But can we (both us and non-us people) do something useful, on a fundamental level?
Maybe showing kindness and understanding in sufficiently relaxed contexts (when it is possible to talk) to convert those that lash out because they are overwhelmed?
@interfluidity The common humanity, as a potential way out of the seperate, easy to manipulate human traits we got from evolving in a different environment. I like that view.
@admitsWrongIfProven I definitely think communicating kindly on a human to human basis is essential. Everything else can fly off in terrible directions so easily. Reinforcement of our common humanity is our best protection from that.