Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 13 hours agoCalling the US culture “alien” is an easy cop out way to say it’s not our fault. But the truth is, it’s authentic human shit. It’s uniquely fucked up comparatively but it’s still a result of millennia of human civilization. We’re all partially responsible.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
By “alien”, I didn’t mean any negative connotations. I meant that I don’t understand it. Ugandan or Japanese cultures, for example, are alien to me, because I don’t understand their nuances and can’t be bothered to learn them. The US, with its proud European “descendants” (so many people claim to be European even though they are the third generation to never set foot in Europe), used to be at least understandable, but it’s shifting towards something where I no longer understand how people think or what motives drive them.
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Fair enough!