cyberdad wrote:
The world we live in is competitive. it is a pissing contest, Not a community of people singing kumbayah.
I don't respect a platform that consistently pistol-whips or smacks around people who were going to to the right thing anyway as if they weren't and never put enough space between impulse and action to find out. I don't respect the cheapness of life or the Hunger Games / Squid Game ethos, nor the idea that income and status are the only metrics worth measuring on a person (especially when they're doled out mostly on raw neurological conformity). I don't think I really need to respect those things beyond the reality that those implementing them as policy have the power to continue implementing them. It forces sh***y outcomes that didn't have to be there if the first priority wasn't dominance and prevention of peace for its own sake. What I REALLY don't respect is the idea of needing to be a worse person to survive, that makes me throw up in my mouth a bit every time I have to confront it.
There are many clicks and settings between neo-feudalism on one hand and 'a community of people singing kumbayah'. It takes someone with a real lack of imagination not to see that.
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