Those who are in power know they can use the disenfranchised as their whip.
The article correctly identifies imo that it’s paramount we need to start thinking inclusive when it comes to setting up society.
Or like that quote, a society is measured how they treat their poorest.
Pretending to act on someone's behalf while belittling them (a recent case being changing Lantio/Latina to latinX because virtue signalling), all the lies everywhere (look at this perfect sponsored life I live).
My city now sports nothing but black flags and stickers, or thin blue line flags. BLM were bullied from showing support publicly.
People would rather complain than help the homeless.
Home owners will screw over the rest of society to protect their 'investment'.
Businesses treat their employees worse than ever while paying them the lowest ever.
The rich oay nothing in taxes.
The list goes on and on.
The Internet isn't making people crazy.
People have been fucking crazy this just lets them have the aforementioned megaphone.
The solution at this point is starting over.
If you don't like what the mirror shows you, breaking the mirror or replacing it won't solve the problem.
Truly, I'm down to get together with some people, buy an island, and start from scratch.
Putting bandaids on squirting arteries does nothing.
More people have access to transformative resources than has ever been the case.
All the ills around you were even worse in the past and its only the incremental efforts of the decent that have gotten us to these heights.
We haven't fallen from grace - we're rising out of the muck.
We kill/harm each other at record rates.
We are sinking into the muck, using wet naps to clean our eyes to pretend we are making things better.
So please elucidate where you think we are killing eachother at record rates, because I don’t think that is the case.
Need I go on? I'd ask instead what good do you think we humans are doing, and further if you believe it outweighs the bad?
A friend of mine started small with a organisation and now helps tens of people a year with domestic issues. All people who might have been worse off, and perhaps start doing bad things.
1) Access to education 2) Labor norms 3) Lifespan and infant mortality 4) Social justice 5) Depth and breadth of our understanding of subjects from physics to mathematics to philosophy to justice (setting aside that there's also plenty of navel gazing in these efforts)
These have made a dent, and there's plenty more to do.