The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(07-26-2021, 04:57 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(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.

Here in the US, we're decades into a period of magical thinking that started with the emergence of slander politics under Lee Atwater and talk radio under Rush Limbaugh. The Murdocks have spread it in the UK and AUstralia too.  That's nearly 40 years of intense programming that's only gotten more intense in the present.  It has a dedicated and mature audience that's been steeped in this stuff for nearly 40 years.  If changing course is possible, it's not likely to be by the fully engrossed.  It will hagve to be by the young and less subsumed.  

Taramarie is part of that demographic too.  The malady infesting free societies has been able to spread because we value free speech, but devalue the responsibility that goes with it.  Let's hope that this can be resolved without implementing the mindnumbing sameness of the last 1T.  Then again, it needs to be addressed regardless.