It gives me some catharsis after a mass shooting to comment about such news to note that us killing each other, including very often our children is exactly who we are and what others should judge us as, because we refuse to work to change it, and we deserve to be judged accordingly on such acts by both the world and history, as if history generally got written by the virtuous.
It doesn’t change what happens, or help the situation, but it helps me to at least basically say as insultingly as possible to my society, “This is the part where we should be deeply ashamed of who we are, and strongly desire to change who we are .”
Unfortunately, on so many levels, from social to economic policies and values, the United States seems to have completely divorced itself from the concept of shame, except sadly for the one place it has no value whatsoever, where we seem to concentrate literally all the shame we are capable of: backwards, puritanical sexual hangups.
Somehow we remember shame for that harmful, idiotic exercise exclusively. None for greed, none sociopathy, none for selfishness, none for glorifying owning tools of murder as somehow synonymous with personal freedom, etc. None for people who hurt others to benefit themselves exclusively, we encourage that kind of shameless “rational self-interest.” We put the best of those sociopaths on Forbes lists and call them role models.
“👏Oh they made so much money for themselves and their private shareholders! So fucking brave! They should be so proud! 👏”
No Blame towards the 1% fueling the culture war responsible.
It
is disgustingmakes me cringe society readily accepts the blameWhile looking at root causes and contributing factors is very important, none of that absolves people for their own actions.
I would argue it is the sole reason behind the action. Blaming each other gets us nowhere, nor stops the violence. There is a concerted effort here to divide the country. One could rationally look at the 1% as the driving factor behind 99% of the world’s problems. If the culture war propaganda stopped, we could make progress.
Regardless of what the reasons behind actions are, individual are still responsible for their own actions. If a group of Klansmen does a lynching, should they just go free because Fox news made them do it?
Of course people are responsible for their actions but the fact remains it wouldn’t have happened in the in the first place without paid professionals manufacturing propaganda, driving this culture at the behest of corporate interests
Right. Where is the compassion here ?
It’s all very well to observe human behaviour and society, with the benefit of a doctorate level education.
What about the masses born to wage slave parents and raised by the TV set and youtube, educated at barely functional schools , teaching corporate funded curriculums ?
we are taught selfishness as a virtue and pitted against each other from day one. we are taught to idolise the rjch and famous, that TV sport is more important than civic/community engagement.
every time we open our eyes, we are being marketed to and indoctrinated by finely tuned propaganda machines.
so yeah, when we elect a sub human conman, i am somewhat sympathetic toward those who were conned. hard as it may be.
In a country that gets away with war crimes by saying “We made a few mistakes” and their populace just accepts it and goes along with it, even going as far as to defend those crimes, you can’t expect anything less.
“if this is who we are, maybe we shouldn’t be”
