every few days the horror strikes me: Americans are so wedded to their identities, certainties, and conveniences they won’t do a near-zero-cost minor annoyance thing like wear masks that could potentially save tens of thousands of lives...
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There’s also a Hobbesian streak in the US. The idea that some ongoing culling of the weak is a good thing. It’s not exactly eugenics or racism (though those sensibilities are present too at the margins) but a frontier morality. Comes from the same place as the gun fetish.
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again, lack of terrain-surveying imo. i wont keep beating the dead horse, but just fyi... the correct axis is conspiratorial vs mainstream, not trump vs dnc or red vs blue that explains the minorities etc
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I think you’re wrong here. You’re overindexed on the fringe and underestimating the banality of the core. Conspiratorial imagination is much weaker than sheer lack of imagination.
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Americans are so powerful they have begun to think all facts are determined socially. The Secret, virus edition.
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You think there’s a lot of non-masking in LA, try Ventura county. Way too many “freedom-loving” dingdongs around here.
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