This is likely to get rough though, and not just due the fuel that went into Roe falling.
The generation that dealt with Hitler and the Holocaust is mostly dead now. They served as a hard block on fascism. Yes, it leaked through in places, but their live experience had impact. Now they’re mostly dead and the current memory of society no longer holds those first hand experiences. Look around. Globally, its a problem.
This will happen with the generation of women who remember, first hand, life prior to the 1970s, when they did not have financial freedom under law, among other things. They’re all 70+ now. I think Roe was just the beginning.
I don’t disagree with your assessment but if we are collectively dumb enough to subject ourselves to obviously bad ideas simply because we haven’t experienced the negative effects of those ideas firsthand then we deserve the consequences of such colossal stupidity.
This seems to be the collective expression across media: you’re dumb [not you, krashmo, a collective “you”], either wholly or within the context of X, so you deserve bad things.
I don’t disagree when it’s something that only affects that individual, but the statements pass the buck and create a passivity regarding problems that effect more than that individual. This isn’t a hold my beer moment where someone injures themselves or an anger management issue that loses a job for that one man. The dumb of 1/3 of the population, 1/3 of a society, is thus absorbed and accepted by all with these dismissive, passive statements. To be fair, acceptance is the easier path.
It’s not about wishing pain on others it’s about hoping they will learn. If words fail then perhaps pain will work.
It’s also not reasonable to expect people to be perfectly patient with their idiotic neighbors who categorically refuse to engage the rational parts of their minds. That’s not a human response to self destructive stupidity. A human response is to ostracize the offenders until they stop endangering the group with their poor decisions.
This is likely to get rough though, and not just due the fuel that went into Roe falling.
The generation that dealt with Hitler and the Holocaust is mostly dead now. They served as a hard block on fascism. Yes, it leaked through in places, but their live experience had impact. Now they’re mostly dead and the current memory of society no longer holds those first hand experiences. Look around. Globally, its a problem.
This will happen with the generation of women who remember, first hand, life prior to the 1970s, when they did not have financial freedom under law, among other things. They’re all 70+ now. I think Roe was just the beginning.
I don’t disagree with your assessment but if we are collectively dumb enough to subject ourselves to obviously bad ideas simply because we haven’t experienced the negative effects of those ideas firsthand then we deserve the consequences of such colossal stupidity.
This seems to be the collective expression across media: you’re dumb [not you, krashmo, a collective “you”], either wholly or within the context of X, so you deserve bad things.
I don’t disagree when it’s something that only affects that individual, but the statements pass the buck and create a passivity regarding problems that effect more than that individual. This isn’t a hold my beer moment where someone injures themselves or an anger management issue that loses a job for that one man. The dumb of 1/3 of the population, 1/3 of a society, is thus absorbed and accepted by all with these dismissive, passive statements. To be fair, acceptance is the easier path.
It’s not about wishing pain on others it’s about hoping they will learn. If words fail then perhaps pain will work.
It’s also not reasonable to expect people to be perfectly patient with their idiotic neighbors who categorically refuse to engage the rational parts of their minds. That’s not a human response to self destructive stupidity. A human response is to ostracize the offenders until they stop endangering the group with their poor decisions.