07-26-2021, 04:57 PM
(07-25-2021, 03:18 AM)taramarie Wrote: Here in Slovakia it seems the dictatorship eradicating basic rights and bringing about a European apatheid is winning. On top of that i learned nasty things are in store for those who caused havoc for the government in opposition to their new illegal law. Including myself. They really want a war and they will get a digital one as like HELL will i let them remove freedoms that should be for all.
Unfortunately, this isn’t too different from what is happening in America. Tribal thinking assumes one subgroup is superior to others in the culture. Prejudice is developed towards other groups, which supposedly justifies oppression and violence. The Balkans area is more ancient in their thinking, but it is essentially the same thing as America.
I just don’t see where the presence of oppression and violence helps the culture overall. Places where you see Tribal Thinking in action are a mess.
Still, I have often noted how people don’t change their perspective. If they start out one way, they stick to it until it utterly fails. This happened in the Industrial Age with the loss of a crisis war, the recognition that you will have to submerge one’s values in the face of superior force. With Gandhi, King and the suffragettes, protest and legislation opened the door to another form of change. One can hope that works in the Balkans, but some people are awful fond of superiority, prejudice, oppression and violence.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.