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There’s an inherently violent aspect of masculinity that has been appearing in my feeds. Have been seeing it more and more as coronavirus spreads.

Masculinity is the essence of setting boundaries. E.g. Goals and Focus are bounded targets and directions. This boundary setting naturally has a cutting or slicing effect. It divides things, it clarifies sides.

A scalpel can save a life or take one. The sharper the mechanism of separation, the more responsibility needed to avoid the more “evil” aspects.

This boundary setting and differentiation is the essence of racism. It creates Us vs Them. Good and Bad, etc...

Nowadays direct racism is widely seen as primitive but its essence of finding some way of differentiating groups of people still is strong. It’s more culture war with the strong racial correlation just pointed out conviniently as fact.

It’s not necessarily bad, sometimes heuristics are needed, especially at scale. Finding the crack with which to make a split involves its own creativity and intelligence.

Yet I can’t help but feel a dread towards how easily some thoughts fly out of accounts I respect a lot. Especially towards topics like China and the Chinese.

I suppose it was to be expected though. Sources of light by their nature shine because they hide the more shadowy sides. Especially on an outwards facing platform like Twitter.