All of this is the end result of a society being raised to believe that we are all in it for ourselves and that being selfish is a virtue, and supporting each other is for chumps.
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I soo much agree. Neoliberism wants us to be individualists, to believe that all of our problems can be solved by ourselves, with self-help and other crap. They want us divided because they know that if we were united we wouldn't take their shit.
The same right-wing fundamentalists that deny humans are animals, and Evolution, posit “survival of the fittest” as the optimal socioeconomic structure.
From culturally expecting to throw our kids out of the house at 18 (and charging our families rent to come back) to treating our houses as personal fiefdoms to voting down their school funding so that our district remains better and our home values rise
Got into an argument with my neighbor about my lawn, since I don't groom it as often, grow clover, herbs, etc. When empathy for insects, bees fell flat in the argument I pivoted that I was trying to keep the neighborhood affordable and he may not thank me, but his kids would.
From suburban flight so that we don't need to be with those undesirables in the city to redlining laws to keep them out of our neighborhoods, is it that much of a stretch to shrug when your neighbor gets iced to El Salvador?
The largest American churches have long taught that heaven is a place for gloating over the people who weren't as good as you, and that the only thing that matters is your own success even at the cost of society. How do you expect justice from this kind of moral degradation?
Failure is the best teacher. My hope is that something has been learned or brought into context, that is now unavoidable to those who wish to minimize it.
Our culture is broken when we have so many people who worship money, greed, lies, corruption, fake everything, consumption, and bigotry. It’s just disgusting.
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Sadly, there’s a certain group who believe otherwise.