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fakir@lemm.ee 3 days agoThe rise of nationalism / individualism world-wide is due to powerful propaganda targeting this exact instinctive behavior of man that tells him that he is superior to his neighbor with the different religion, county of birth, skin color. There’s a reason propaganda relies on rage, anger, & fear because those emotions evoke your animal instincts, bypassing all rational thinking.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 days ago
fakir@lemm.ee 2 days ago
‘Supposed to’ - yeah, we all wish. ‘Reality’ is that you are who you are. If you don’t recognize this primal instinct in yourself, you’ll never understand it in others. To understand the world, all you need is a mirror, and you need to look really deep in it.
artificialfish@programming.dev 2 days ago
Who gave us that goal? You? Nations don’t have that goal. Their goal is “do better than my neighbor” “look out for my interests”. Most peoples goals are that way. People divide into companies, families, and nations specifically because they see themselves as different from the other. Our printer is different, our identity is different, etc, let’s cooperate. But cooperation IMPLIES someone you are competing with. If not, that competition will arise to “get there’s”. That’s the will to power.
You are talking about some kind of enlightened person.