I hate this specific rhetoric about how the purpose of fiction is to try to prove the thesis "Humanity is inherently good" or "Humanity is inherently evil" It's so childish Of course it's neither of those things
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I'm not a pessimist because I think humans are all generally waiting to suddenly become cackling mustache-twirling monsters at the drop of a hat Most dystopian fiction doesn't really believe that either I think that humans are prone to making *bad decisions under stress*
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The same horde of people that's capable of doing the great good under the right circumstances is capable of doing great evil under the wrong ones And all I'm saying is those bad circumstances come along more often and are easier to exploit
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We were capable of reacting humanely and with prudence to the situation *for a while*, *under the correct circumstances* Those circumstances didn't obtain forever Systems matter, leadership matters, material support structures matter
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That xkcd aged particularly poorly
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"Humans" are not some consistent group This is so obvious and yet these sophomoric debates always just cast it aside
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The US is a massive outlier on this, though. Countries with... eh... functioning governments fit that notion a lot better. Even the actual nazis in many EU countries aren't out there going "just spit on each other all the time, that's what freedom is about".
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This is kind of why I've gone off the boil for Black Mirror. I was super hyped at how good it was for showing flaws in the human condition, then real life reminded me that we already saw them, so how about some scifi where the worlds most marginalised people catch a break?
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