Re:Talkin' about a Revolution
by AnimalMuppet on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:31AM
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"People do not change that much morally."
Greed is part of what humans are. It's part of what destroys societies. Building a society that can survive human nature long term is an unsolved problem.
You sound like you expected that, after the end of the Cold War, we had a perfect society, and then we fell from a state of grace and ruined it. No, after the end of the Cold War, the pressure was removed that had been keeping us from acting on our worst impulses. Turns out that many of us were worse than we expected.
Greed is part of what humans are. It's part of what destroys societies. Building a society that can survive human nature long term is an unsolved problem.
You sound like you expected that, after the end of the Cold War, we had a perfect society, and then we fell from a state of grace and ruined it. No, after the end of the Cold War, the pressure was removed that had been keeping us from acting on our worst impulses. Turns out that many of us were worse than we expected.