This comment by Z on the post Where Have All the Grownups Gone?
My dislike of humanity started early (hey, I was precocious!) and has magnified exponentially since. We live in an overcrowded, overheated world made insecure on purpose by legions of (mostly) white men who have perfected the art of nihilism and see absolutely everything as a financial opportunity. Water? Land? Grandma? Check, check, check.
Having created this climate of artificial scarcity and fear, we now live in a world where nothing is promised, nothing is secure and nobody is to be trusted, a world where friendships, families and lovers can be cut off with the click of a mouse as we “de-friend” or erase people on a whim. We are taught to look out for number one, that there is no such thing as society and that in a binary world there are only winners and losers and if you’re a loser that means you suck as a person. We have created a circular climate of nihilism and fear and it stymies us as a species.
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Food for Thought:
Can we really have a future as a species if we keep destroying community, cooperation, fairness and equality in our society?
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