
Where all of us are guilty of hate, then no one is guilty of it, for you have naturalized it as inherent within all of us; confessions of collective guilt are therefore the best possible safeguard against the discovery of the culprits—those who occupy niches and roles that perpetuate these lateral hostilities and class antagonisms—and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing, because you’ve successfully diffused and individualized systemic issues, so they cannot resolve.
Humans have always found hatred in differences throughout history. Civilizations on the Euphrates, the Persians and the Lydians, Greek city states, Greeks and the Persians, Greeks and the Romans, Roman’s and the Celtics, The Chinese and the Japanese’s, The Ottomans and the East Romans, all of European history, the Tutsi and the Hutu, east vs west, north vs south. Ethnic or locational humans find their tribes. It comes naturally to us. Even in school with cliques, nerds, jocks. All tribalism.
Exactly. It’s not the entire population of a country that despises its neighbors, it’s a few demented men. Hatred isn’t natural to humans, but ethnocentrism is. And it’s hard to learn about other people without using your own perspective as the standard. THAT is natural to humans. But learning can happen and humans do learn quite a bit about other people and their hearts change and soften. But when you have a deranged, narcissistic, dying man screeching in your ear, it’s hard not blindly listen.
well they know theyre wrong, u cannot become a millionaire without an abhorrent level of exploitation every step of the way, let alone billionaires. my problem concerns more of how the current system allows things to get to that point. i have no sympathy or tolerance for ppl who pay for profit with the blood of children, wage laborers, and our planet