I’m honestly not sure which is worse, but they’re both the kind of imperialism that happens when the rest of the world is okay with there only being two navies worth the name
Nah. I mean, we can be. We do all sorts of bad shit because we’re dumb and greedy–but it takes more than that to do a war, a modern industrialized war.
It takes patterns habits life-ways of obedience. It takes suborning ones own conscience and understanding as a reliable thing. It takes the use of violence and terror as method of coordination against ones interests and desires. It takes identifying with that violence, and identifying others with theirs. It takes a state.
And we need to not have those anymore. We have too much technology too much ability to destroy each other and ourselves to keep fucking around like this. We are too smart to keep being this fucking stupid.
I’m honestly not sure which is worse, but they’re both the kind of imperialism that happens when the rest of the world is okay with there only being two navies worth the name
Well, there are only so many countries able to spend that much on navy’s
What if nobody fucking did that shit, and we spent those resources doing science and building houses and making art?
Is my hope one day. Unfortunately people are dumb and greedy.
Nah. I mean, we can be. We do all sorts of bad shit because we’re dumb and greedy–but it takes more than that to do a war, a modern industrialized war.
It takes patterns habits life-ways of obedience. It takes suborning ones own conscience and understanding as a reliable thing. It takes the use of violence and terror as method of coordination against ones interests and desires. It takes identifying with that violence, and identifying others with theirs. It takes a state.
And we need to not have those anymore. We have too much technology too much ability to destroy each other and ourselves to keep fucking around like this. We are too smart to keep being this fucking stupid.
I like the way it was put in MIB, a person is smart, people are dumb.
But yes, the borders, and stupid hate towards differences needs to go.
People are made to be stupid. Or at least stupider than we are naturally.
We don’t have to be. We’ve done collectively smart things in the past.