Us. There will always be people who enjoy power games and needless cruelty, that’s just how we are as a species and what all the religions, empires and industries we’ve ever had have been based on.
We’re not capable of being better, the power games and cruelty have always been too well rewarded. It’s ingrained.
Step on the little man to get ahead, prove your place by ostracising the witch, genocide/crusade/colonise to acquire land and spread your religion, fabricate wars to steal resources, vote for the leaders who hate the same people you hate, etc.
It might not be all of us who do this, but it’s always been the majority and they keep winning.
Any attempt at a moral and just society full of like minded people, is always going to end by power games and needless cruelty, either from the people within it or from the people outside it.
That’s just how we are as a species. Collectively, we suck.
It’s guilt by association for those of us who aren’t needlessly cruel and power hungry, but it’s still valid as we will never be able to escape these systems of oppression created and upheld by the rest of our species.
Us. There will always be people who enjoy power games and needless cruelty, that’s just how we are as a species and what all the religions, empires and industries we’ve ever had have been based on.
We’re not capable of being better, the power games and cruelty have always been too well rewarded. It’s ingrained.
Step on the little man to get ahead, prove your place by ostracising the witch, genocide/crusade/colonise to acquire land and spread your religion, fabricate wars to steal resources, vote for the leaders who hate the same people you hate, etc.
It might not be all of us who do this, but it’s always been the majority and they keep winning.
Any attempt at a moral and just society full of like minded people, is always going to end by power games and needless cruelty, either from the people within it or from the people outside it.
That’s just how we are as a species. Collectively, we suck.
It’s guilt by association for those of us who aren’t needlessly cruel and power hungry, but it’s still valid as we will never be able to escape these systems of oppression created and upheld by the rest of our species.