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> Even if it is 100% true, I am not impressed. You are not the only person to come to that conclusion. The entire situation is bizarre. Usually highly rational
by pdkl95 10y ago
> Even if it is 100% true, I am not impressed.
You are not the only person to come to that conclusion. The entire situation is bizarre. Usually highly rational people are suddenly acting like an angry mob. Requests for information and explanation are ignored or shunned.
> We can make our community hell on earth.
I've been watching major parts of free, democratic society crumble for several decades. Normally change is slow, but recently we seem to be accelerating the transition into hell. The transition isn't limited to just our community: the same attitudes that treat accusations as evidence and polarize people into ideological tribes resulted in violence at a recent political rally in San Jose. Tribalism is growing rapidly, and I am absolutely terrified that society is far closer to the breaking point than anybody realizes.
> All we have to do is let the provocateurs be us.
As Walt Kelly famously said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
- PavlovsCat 10y ago> As Walt Kelly famously said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." While I do share your worries, here's the context :) > Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle. > There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. > Forward! -- Walt Kelly, foreword of "The Pogo Papers"