RE: Human Nature
May 3, 2025 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2025 at 12:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm telling you that -I- use the term to describe what you're describing in that comment.
Politicians are corrupt, but why? Priests fuck little kids, but why? People vote for fascism, but why? Each of these things can be explored in the context of human nature...and as it so happens, those three things have alot of overlap. We're not all individual little snowflakes. We are natural creatures with hereditary abilities, concerns, and flaws. Human nature. Two groups of people who vote for fascism probably have alot in common..and if we dive deeper, we'd find that they have alot in common with people who don't. The people who don't are not a different animal, or a different class, or inherently better. They've found some other outlet (hopefully a decent one, lol) for that common human nature that causes the notable and notably repeated fuckup in humans.
Ethnic nationalism shrinks a circle. Civic nationalism enlarges one. They appeal to many people for pretty much the same reasons, but they have wildly different outcomes. Each manipulates and exploits human nature. Our tribalism and our empathy, specifically.
Politicians are corrupt, but why? Priests fuck little kids, but why? People vote for fascism, but why? Each of these things can be explored in the context of human nature...and as it so happens, those three things have alot of overlap. We're not all individual little snowflakes. We are natural creatures with hereditary abilities, concerns, and flaws. Human nature. Two groups of people who vote for fascism probably have alot in common..and if we dive deeper, we'd find that they have alot in common with people who don't. The people who don't are not a different animal, or a different class, or inherently better. They've found some other outlet (hopefully a decent one, lol) for that common human nature that causes the notable and notably repeated fuckup in humans.
Ethnic nationalism shrinks a circle. Civic nationalism enlarges one. They appeal to many people for pretty much the same reasons, but they have wildly different outcomes. Each manipulates and exploits human nature. Our tribalism and our empathy, specifically.
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