dehumanization is the easy and wrong way out. it’s human to have the capacity for infinite cruelty. change the material circumstances and you too might be cruel.
That industrialization counts for something, AND so does needless-sadism as a specialization, which … ttbomk … nature doesn’t produce quite so regularly among normal animals.
We’re basically industrialized chimps/baboons, when we COULD have been Homo Humanus, upright-humans.
I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar
Lol I feel like our greatest strength could be defined in a better way, particularly considering what “politics” has gotten us in pretty much every single civilization… Collapse
Man, I wish we lived in a world where being kind and treating everyone equally wasn’t somehow political.
In a normal democracy it isn’t, but fascists aren’t democratic people. By definition.
they’re also barely people
dehumanization is the easy and wrong way out. it’s human to have the capacity for infinite cruelty. change the material circumstances and you too might be cruel.
Right on. It’s so deeply human that no other animal has been observed to be as cruel as we are to each other and our environment.
You’ll lose that opinion real fast if you learn about chimps, dolphins, or even lions.
No chimp has performed a holocaust. I don’t know about the dolphins though; who knows what goes on beneath the waves…
Chimps massacre and cannibalize rival tribes on the regular.
True, but they don’t industrialize it.
That industrialization counts for something, AND so does needless-sadism as a specialization, which … ttbomk … nature doesn’t produce quite so regularly among normal animals.
We’re basically industrialized chimps/baboons, when we COULD have been Homo Humanus, upright-humans.
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He’s nice and not racist. Pfff woke.
I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar
Lol I feel like our greatest strength could be defined in a better way, particularly considering what “politics” has gotten us in pretty much every single civilization… Collapse
Politics also made all those civilisations.
When a society all agrees not to eat all the potatoes now, but to plant some underground and wait for them to grow more potatoes, that’s politics.
When an artist and a programmer agree to divide responsibilities and make a video game together, that’s politics.
When a discord moderator decides to force everyone to agree to a no politics rule, that’s politics.
I’m disagreeing with you, fundamentally:
spirituality & religion ( those are separate dimensions ) & secular-projects & other motivations are real: it isn’t all politics.
Political-motivation is a dimension, but an aweful lot of human action isn’t politically-motivated.
Some people can’t tolerate that to be even-possible, of course…
Planning isn’t self-inherently political.
< shruggeth >
Some ideologues won’t ever allow that any human meaning exists outside of their ideology’s framing, & that’s that, though.
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