Everyone I’m close to knows about the prison industrial complex because we talk to each other. That’s how a few of us found out, by knowing people who are activated enough to look into these things and spread the word. As to the rest, I could hit you with a list of things and say “approach the world with intent to confirm this bias” and it would amount to the same thing.
Not being part of the problem takes work, it’s true, but wisdom is in knowing people are highly situational, neither inherently good or bad but often entirely unequipped for the world we’ve created or the heights we’ve grasped. We’re beings of brilliance and kindness but also complacency and disaster. Not evil, but we create many evil situations by accident and shortsightedness.
We live in different countries. I left the US because it was driving me crazy, and my heart goes out to you since I know a lot of people feel that way but don’t have a viable exit strategy. I’ve put in a lot of work to stop participating in an empire of slavery and stolen land, moved back to the land of my grandparents (which has its own terrible history, perfect being the enemy of good as we all know).
I’m against all the buckets. The only bucket we’re all in is a gravity well, and we need to act like it if we’re not going to hate it every minute.
Everyone I’m close to knows about the prison industrial complex because we talk to each other.
Maybe we live in different neighborhoods. Most of my neighbors are fine with locking “those people” up, and don’t much care what happens to them beyond that.
“approach the world with intent to confirm this bias”
How do you account for the vast majority of eligible voters either not showing up or voting for Trump? That’s about as unbiased a measure as I can think of.
Not being part of the problem takes work,
So we’re on the same page there.
wisdom is in knowing people are highly situational, neither inherently good or bad
If it takes work to not be part of the problem than aren’t people inherently “bad” until they do the work? I didn’t introduce that dialectic to this conversation. Of course throwing everyone into two buckets is inherently going to miss a lot of depth.
often entirely unequipped for the world we’ve created or the heights we’ve grasped.
Everyone I’m close to knows about the prison industrial complex because we talk to each other. That’s how a few of us found out, by knowing people who are activated enough to look into these things and spread the word. As to the rest, I could hit you with a list of things and say “approach the world with intent to confirm this bias” and it would amount to the same thing.
Not being part of the problem takes work, it’s true, but wisdom is in knowing people are highly situational, neither inherently good or bad but often entirely unequipped for the world we’ve created or the heights we’ve grasped. We’re beings of brilliance and kindness but also complacency and disaster. Not evil, but we create many evil situations by accident and shortsightedness.
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We live in different countries. I left the US because it was driving me crazy, and my heart goes out to you since I know a lot of people feel that way but don’t have a viable exit strategy. I’ve put in a lot of work to stop participating in an empire of slavery and stolen land, moved back to the land of my grandparents (which has its own terrible history, perfect being the enemy of good as we all know).
I’m against all the buckets. The only bucket we’re all in is a gravity well, and we need to act like it if we’re not going to hate it every minute.
Maybe we live in different neighborhoods. Most of my neighbors are fine with locking “those people” up, and don’t much care what happens to them beyond that.
How do you account for the vast majority of eligible voters either not showing up or voting for Trump? That’s about as unbiased a measure as I can think of.
So we’re on the same page there.
If it takes work to not be part of the problem than aren’t people inherently “bad” until they do the work? I didn’t introduce that dialectic to this conversation. Of course throwing everyone into two buckets is inherently going to miss a lot of depth.
I’m not sure it was ever any different.
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You’ve read a fair bit of self-help books or similar haven’t you?