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you just carve out us and them circles then just make the circles smaller and smaller. look at the push right now in the US against corrupt foreign aid and the
by sharemywin 2y ago
you just carve out us and them circles then just make the circles smaller and smaller.
look at the push right now in the US against corrupt foreign aid and the mass deportations seems like the first step.
- vladms 2y agoHistorically, humanity evolved faster when it was interacting. So groups can try to isolate themselves but on the long run that will make them lag behind. US benefited a lot from lots of smart people going there (even more during WWII). If people start believing (correctly or incorrectly) that they would be better somewhere else, it will not benefit them.
- int_19h 2y agoThing is, if there's too many of "them", they will eventually come for "us" with torches and pitchforks. You can victimize a large part of the population like that, but not a supermajority of it.