RE: Human Nature
May 1, 2025 at 11:25 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2025 at 11:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 1, 2025 at 9:01 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: I also contend the claim about human nature making us believe in lies. If it is human nature that makes so then clearly some of us are naturally better and other worse. It's a claim that I see as both absurd and classist. To say it plainly - I think that people voting on trump (or kaczyński in my case) are dumb or desperate in more charitable interpretation of their actions. I'm however no better than them, nor naturally superior. I simply have benefit of better education, cultural capital and not being someone who is really fucked by current system. If it would be human nature at fault then how one group of people would vote "right" and other "wrong" without one group being worse? To me it is nothing more than return to idiotic discourse of the past when nobles were naturally better than commoners, or men naturally better than women.
By being in the same position as the guy who does the fucked up thing, and not doing the fucked up thing, yeah, you've done better than they have. There's always tomorrow to fuck up and do the wrong thing (or the right one for our fascists). That's how we can settle into whatever level of collective dumbfuckery we sink to. There are toilet seats to leave up if you never manage to do another wrong. Classism, in contrast, suggests (or perceives) that the facts of these matters are not or may not be the right or wrong maker. That membership in some social class is, instead.
We're remarkably similar to each other in many , and many surprising, ways. IMO. I'd call it about a wash for humanity, fascists stick out as particularly shitty because of this.
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