I’m still struggling to understand the rage in the USA which has driven this and so much more. So many countries seem to have felt an equivalent bitterness towards their struggling institutions across the world. The potential if not actually probable consequences of such actions are damaging and destructive. They help no-one. Is it the nature of an adversarial political process? Class struggle? Human nature? Not one of these reductive concepts explains the damage we seem to be willing to cause to our civilisation (greatly flawed as it is). Or am I merely demonstrating demoralisation in the face of the collapse of society as I knew it? Sorry for the depressing comment and it is a weakness to give in to Weltschmerz or whatever this is, but if anyone can lift me up even slightly, I would appreciate it. The long view is often a hard perspective to achieve when so much seems to be at stake.
One explanation that seems plausible to me is that our system rewards individuals who have relatively little empathy by giving them increasing amounts of power. Overtime, the proportion of people holding power without a physical capacity for empathy grows and such individual gathers more even more power. Good for then but not so much for the rest of us.
Probably dismantle the Department. block grants to states, dismantle the Civil Rights division, to the extent possible make Title 1 into vouchers, all w/o pissing off states by decreasing funding… fixing FAFSA would be a plus
Could this be an IQ bell curve event? The neglected of society (poor childcare, bad living conditions , poor diet, lead in water etc) resulted in millions of Trump’s “uneducated” following a strong man type because they lack the mental wit to see they’re being hoodwinked? By starving public education (in the broad sense) we’ve created millions of dimwits (no fault of their own) who follow a rather simple-minded autocrat.
She’s been named along with her husband as enabling child sexual abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/business/vince-mcmahon-wwe-lawsuit-prevented-sexual-assault
Yup. I've added a link to the piece. Creepy stuff.
I’m still struggling to understand the rage in the USA which has driven this and so much more. So many countries seem to have felt an equivalent bitterness towards their struggling institutions across the world. The potential if not actually probable consequences of such actions are damaging and destructive. They help no-one. Is it the nature of an adversarial political process? Class struggle? Human nature? Not one of these reductive concepts explains the damage we seem to be willing to cause to our civilisation (greatly flawed as it is). Or am I merely demonstrating demoralisation in the face of the collapse of society as I knew it? Sorry for the depressing comment and it is a weakness to give in to Weltschmerz or whatever this is, but if anyone can lift me up even slightly, I would appreciate it. The long view is often a hard perspective to achieve when so much seems to be at stake.
One explanation that seems plausible to me is that our system rewards individuals who have relatively little empathy by giving them increasing amounts of power. Overtime, the proportion of people holding power without a physical capacity for empathy grows and such individual gathers more even more power. Good for then but not so much for the rest of us.
Brian Klaas has written about this. Thanks Juliana.
Probably dismantle the Department. block grants to states, dismantle the Civil Rights division, to the extent possible make Title 1 into vouchers, all w/o pissing off states by decreasing funding… fixing FAFSA would be a plus
Could this be an IQ bell curve event? The neglected of society (poor childcare, bad living conditions , poor diet, lead in water etc) resulted in millions of Trump’s “uneducated” following a strong man type because they lack the mental wit to see they’re being hoodwinked? By starving public education (in the broad sense) we’ve created millions of dimwits (no fault of their own) who follow a rather simple-minded autocrat.