The saddest thing, and excuse me if I’m sounding blunt or flippant.
But as I shake my head, what low levels of ok’ness so many American people have been conditioned & duped into believing that “as long as I’m not bothered” then it’s all good mentality.
Given the current & recent optics,
gas prices are getting some a little worked up about stuff.
But sadly I digress.
America has the problem all conqueror cultures have - they exist only as long as there are things to conquer.
The history of itself that America tells itself is a long series of self-serving revisionist narratives about how we’re justified in our unjustifiable actions. White Americans tell themselves its totally okay to appropriate from other cultures what is lacking in their own. Whiteness is not a cultural identity and that inherent hollowness produces what we see around us. There is no community of whites like there is community within the cultures the white identity seeks to oppress (while admiring and stealing from). If left unchecked, white supremacist identity seeks to stamp out the oppressed they’ve exploited (then tell themselves all of that stolen culture was rightfully theirs all along).
The whole “bootstraps” culture is a community-destroying myth that Americans have perpetrated upon themselves solely to keep rich pedophiles in power.
I think that might be the human condition in general, and why huge problems like climate change and economic collapse keep happening (almost) everywhere.
and they have no ability to do anything about it. how exactly is your average working person going to change gas prices? best they can do is try to drive less.
The saddest thing, and excuse me if I’m sounding blunt or flippant. But as I shake my head, what low levels of ok’ness so many American people have been conditioned & duped into believing that “as long as I’m not bothered” then it’s all good mentality. Given the current & recent optics, gas prices are getting some a little worked up about stuff. But sadly I digress.
America has the problem all conqueror cultures have - they exist only as long as there are things to conquer.
The history of itself that America tells itself is a long series of self-serving revisionist narratives about how we’re justified in our unjustifiable actions. White Americans tell themselves its totally okay to appropriate from other cultures what is lacking in their own. Whiteness is not a cultural identity and that inherent hollowness produces what we see around us. There is no community of whites like there is community within the cultures the white identity seeks to oppress (while admiring and stealing from). If left unchecked, white supremacist identity seeks to stamp out the oppressed they’ve exploited (then tell themselves all of that stolen culture was rightfully theirs all along).
The whole “bootstraps” culture is a community-destroying myth that Americans have perpetrated upon themselves solely to keep rich pedophiles in power.
I think that might be the human condition in general, and why huge problems like climate change and economic collapse keep happening (almost) everywhere.
they don’t know it’s happening.
and they have no ability to do anything about it. how exactly is your average working person going to change gas prices? best they can do is try to drive less.