4 ms·
American society, led by its rich, capitalist elites, divides people into winners and losers, from the time children are born through their whole lives. People
by viburnum 7y ago
American society, led by its rich, capitalist elites, divides people into winners and losers, from the time children are born through their whole lives. People are buried in a system of hierarchy and dominance. If you want people to feel like they belong you have to put an end to that system. There can be no more winners. Get rid of the private schools, the prom kings, machine guns, homelessness, “good” neighborhoods, private planes, the whole damn system. Build compassion and equality and accountability into everything. Deprive the winners of the satisfaction of dominating the losers.
- asguy 7y agoHierarchy and dominance are built into our DNA. If you believe in evolution, then you might believe that we have evolved this way. Winners choose the outcome because they have won. There’s nothing American about this. What you’re asking for is: you won using methodology A, so now provide an environment so that methodology B might thrive. This doesn’t change the fact that methodology A is the route that got us here.
- strikelaserclaw 7y agoi think this is a bit hyperbole. There are a lot of Americans who live happy, quiet, and mediocre lives. Every society from the beginning of time had a hierarchy, and this will never change. It is just how is the hierarchy formed? Is it through meritocracy? or is it through nepotism, divine rights, and what not.