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It's like we need a hero to rally around or something.
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
It's like we need a hero to rally around or something.
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoNot sure if serious or not but this impulse is very dangerous collectively. One person cannot get us out of this. Putting that on a hero absolves us from having to actually do the hard work of deciding what would be better and implementing it.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoBut that's not where stasis is. We're not even trying to get together and do the hard work because we're not convinced that we're a "we". The hero need not do anything besides be the referent of "I'm with that person," as uttered by many different kinds of people. Hashing out the consequences of "so transitively, I suppose I'm aligned with you now"... that's where the hard work is (solidarity, etc) but most of us aren't even considering that stage yet. We're still a bunch of smaller us's squabbling amongst ourselves--just how the powerful like it.
- ajkjk 2y agoLots of heroes, maybe, doing pieces of the work.