Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ...
by sneak on Thursday December 09, 2021 @06:53PM
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I think perhaps you’ve misunderstood me. I don’t think that we should “punish everyone”.
I’m saying that both parties that are waging war are equally responsible for the war being an ongoing conflict. It doesn’t matter who’s right and who’s wrong, it matters that both parties are conducting warfare.
Remember the whole “deplorables” thing? That set the stage for a team identification banner that you can wear (or not wear) on the front of your face. It’s not one specific act by one specific person, it’s the willingness of the group to vocally and vehemently disrespect the other group as a whole, to subscribe to the belief that all of the people in the other group are Fundamentally Bad. As we all know, both of the groups at issue are doing precisely this, and have been doing so since before covid. It’s such a habit, that you’re doing it right now.
In a word? Disunity. If you are promoting disunity, you’re the problem. (As an interesting aside, this is fundamentally the root problem I have with the existence of nations and borders in general - all so-called sovereign states promote human disunity, to some necessary-for-their-existence extent.)
TFA explains why an ideological/culture war, beyond a certain point, means that any significant crisis or upset will result in useless, senseless, unnecessary, and preventable destruction. It’s a result of the partisan brawlers being constantly ready and willing to brawl with the Other Team, and has nothing to do with the ideology or positions of either of the warring factions.
I’m saying that both parties that are waging war are equally responsible for the war being an ongoing conflict. It doesn’t matter who’s right and who’s wrong, it matters that both parties are conducting warfare.
Remember the whole “deplorables” thing? That set the stage for a team identification banner that you can wear (or not wear) on the front of your face. It’s not one specific act by one specific person, it’s the willingness of the group to vocally and vehemently disrespect the other group as a whole, to subscribe to the belief that all of the people in the other group are Fundamentally Bad. As we all know, both of the groups at issue are doing precisely this, and have been doing so since before covid. It’s such a habit, that you’re doing it right now.
In a word? Disunity. If you are promoting disunity, you’re the problem. (As an interesting aside, this is fundamentally the root problem I have with the existence of nations and borders in general - all so-called sovereign states promote human disunity, to some necessary-for-their-existence extent.)
TFA explains why an ideological/culture war, beyond a certain point, means that any significant crisis or upset will result in useless, senseless, unnecessary, and preventable destruction. It’s a result of the partisan brawlers being constantly ready and willing to brawl with the Other Team, and has nothing to do with the ideology or positions of either of the warring factions.
The only way out is to stop warring.