A huge percentage of people could just straight up jump off a cliff and five seconds later be like "I've always been in freefall, falling is natural, gravity is a law of nature, you can't prove I wouldn't be falling for some other reason if I hadn't jumped It's China's fault"
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"GRAB THE ROPE YOU IDIOT" "It's too late, if you wanted me to grab the rope you should've told me that when I was at the top of the cliff when grabbing it would be easy, now it's hard The speed I'm falling I could dislocate my shoulder that way, don't you know any science"
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"Look falling is just what we do now, it's how life works, and we have to accept that we're now a falling culture and learn how to fall with grace for the foreseeable future Trying to stop the fall by grabbing onto something could cause serious injury and make this worse"
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"But when you hit the ground --" "Ground? Ground? You sound so confident about the future, like you hire everything Do we even know there is a ground? Has anyone ever been to the ground? Can you show me this ground of yours?"
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"We thought the ground would be there when we stepped off the cliff, and it WASN'T Some people apparently can't learn from history"
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the number of people who immediately leapt to "well we're fucked no matter what we do, might as well just give up" is pretty stunning to me especially since we wouldn't be fucked if they hadn't've immediately given up
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a line that always stuck with me: in the years after ww2, america built an egalitarian, prosperous (white, male) society with an increasingly strong safety net and ambitious public works in the years after 1968, they decided they'd rather burn it all down than share it
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it feels like the defining feature of our world, that those in power *won't even help themselves* if it means also helping other people who aren't like them
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