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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I think one of my recurring questions re: the BLM stuff, is that support for what's going on is obviously coming from some deep lack of interest in truth or rigorous analysis. Is this a new thing, or has it always been there and is now just showing up?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I mean I do know it's always been there, but this is entering public acceptance on a very high level, and is indicative of a much larger support base of individuals. What changed in our culture to make such intensely bad thinking happen in such a large wave?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Is it excess? We're a very rich nation and even if you're below the poverty line in the US you're still richer than a big chunk of the world population. Does the general security take away the close need for having thinking methods that actually result in success?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
But e.g., Scandinavian countries, which seem to be pretty rich, don't seem to be equivalently insane. Maybe the smaller size and relative homogeneity helps prevent internal conflict that serves as a seed for this sort of thing?
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danté
@_danteali
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@Aella_Girl
Its not about absolute wealth, rather relative. And the gap in the united states is larger than any country in the world, and is only getting larger.
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OnionSam
@QFlXO
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@Aella_Girl
1. Tribalism - tribes need to find an "enemy" 2. Excess and security result in not having actual dangerous enemies to unite against 3. Internet, social media, cell phone video = lots of emotional fodder
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Mojave Zen
@Zenfucius
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@Aella_Girl
I would say that here MOST people are working ever harder with ever less security for less pay off, even those too young to remember easier/less stressful times sense it, & no matter how hard one tries to ignore the ever growing surveillance state and the oncoming ecocatostrophe,
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