Politics, general anhedonia and the outgroup are so annoying that it is very easy to forget that we currently enjoy an unprecedented level of individual freedom, absence of state violence and access to ideas, knowledge and culture.
No, it is not us. A society is an extremely complex system that does not respond to human emotions or wishes. The few buttons that can be pushed depend on previous decisions to implement certain control mechanisms, and every change can have tremendous and complex tradeoffs.
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Society is not just "you and me and ..." but a thing in itself, for sure, but its not not you and me either. That's the frustrating part, IMHO: that mismatch between "you and me and ..." and "us".
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If we remove you and me from society it will stay essentially unchanged. If we continue and remove all people, replacing them with people that have similar enough traits/abilities, it essentially stays the same. Society is not people, it is their organization.
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