(December 15, 2024 at 6:26 am)Belacqua Wrote: "Above the line" just means that it makes the news, or people are aware of it and shake their heads about how it's something bad. "Below the line" is more like structural violence -- the stuff that our society needs to keep running, so we all just sort of ignore it. If we're aware of it at all.
That's a great metaphor, and one I certainly will agree with. To describe progress and violence people must first become aware of both. Another way to frame it is that future generations will look back at us and perhaps see us as primal as we see societies from a few centuries ago. And yet, we ourselves do not see it because the progress we lack is below the line and hasn't gained sailence.
