Society thinks of itself as Jon Snow, but it's impulses are all Joffrey Baratheon
Like, if you've ever been in a movie theater full of Americans watching something like Independence Day, they all cheer for the mavericks, the risk takers, the independent thinkers
Then outside in the bright light they blink, mask up, cower at home, and snitch on their neighbors
Then outside in the bright light they blink, mask up, cower at home, and snitch on their neighbors
The same divide exists in our ritualistic obsession with "injustice"
Look how brave we are about pronouns and forms of "fascism" so faint that you need a PhD to see them
But show us nationwide lockdowns and 1 million Muslims in Chinese concentration camps, and we can't see it
Look how brave we are about pronouns and forms of "fascism" so faint that you need a PhD to see them
But show us nationwide lockdowns and 1 million Muslims in Chinese concentration camps, and we can't see it
