It leaves a bad taste in my mouth bringing it back around to politics (I wish I lived in a world where I didn't have anything to say about it), but cancel culture has shown that people still love to gather 'round for a good old fashioned sacrifice.
1. Don’t want to change our reliance on cars
2. Don’t want to address hunger and houselessness.
3. We are doing basically nothing about global warming.
A lot of countries COVID strategy was effectively human sacrifice too. This practice never ended.
We legitimately believed that sacrificing humans was helping prosperity, etc. We’re doing the same now with a few extra steps of indirection and abstraction.
Willing being a bit of a stretch considering the entire society was conditioned to believe it was necessary.
Anyway, I’ll leave you with that and maybe you’ll go do some research on this topic.
In fact I remember the Texas governor Dan Patrick saying a lot of grandparents would be willing to sacrifice themselves during Covid for the economy (oddly he did not seem to be willing to lead by example).