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Gonna write a shorter reply because I’m on my phone and frankly too hungry to think, so hopefully it makes sense :-) TL;DR I agree with you re: US culture bein
by weakfish 4mo ago
Gonna write a shorter reply because I’m on my phone and frankly too hungry to think, so hopefully it makes sense :-)
TL;DR I agree with you re: US culture being too selfish and independent for that kind of thinking. It’s something that has had my curiosity for awhile and lends to another argument I’ve tried to make - that when people say collectivist economic systems won’t work because humans are “inherently selfish,” I think they’re confusing human nature with cultural conditioning. I don’t pretend to know how to change that cultural conditioning, but I think it’s narrow minded to assume that because one’s culture is perhaps selfish, then humans are as well.
- jimbokun 4mo agoYou would need an explanation for how every single culture in human history conditions people in this way, if it’s not connected to human nature.
- alexashka 4mo agoFalse statements require no explanation.
- weakfish 4mo agoWell, the comment you're replying to is patently false, as explained in a separate comment.
- weakfish 4mo agoI mean... that's just.. wrong? Indigenous North American cultures, Amish cultures, medieval monastic communities, the list goes on. Really, you can't just make blanket claims like that over _all of human history_ and expect to be right.