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I used to think but the last few years in the US taught me that people everywhere have the same capacity for zealotry, they may have to be reached/triggered dif
by yalogin 5y ago
I used to think but the last few years in the US taught me that people everywhere have the same capacity for zealotry, they may have to be reached/triggered differently that’s all.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoMy commentary is (intended to be) more about how effectively it's been triggered than any particular group of people's susceptibility to it. The effectiveness of the execution of it. Plenty of groups of Western folks get super amped up over any threat to the continuity of their chosen self destructive, unhealthy, unsustainable lifestyles to which they've become accustomed. Because freedom!
- asimpletune 5y agoPlato talked a lot about this. It's very easy for politicians to feed people things that they like but aren't good for them, and this is the normal course of affairs in history. It doesn't really mean anything bad about the USA in the great picture, because we're no different than the rest of the world. That being said, good things happen when "divine providence" (or whatever) produces leaders who feed the people things that improve their health. History in this way is sort of chaotic and kind of a waiting game. The best way to minimize the time in between downward spirals is by strengthening the fabric of society when you have the opportunity, by teaching them - for lack of a better word - how to recognize knowledge.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoEducation is the silver bullet. But... You can bring a horse to the library, but you can't make it read