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HOW WE GOT HERE: PART X—THE CURRENT STAGE OF CRISIS

This thread contains excerpts from Part X of “How We Got Here.” This part reflects on the current state of our nation’s crisis, in the context of the treatise’s preceding exposition.

1/12

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“At present, we have already progressed to a late stage of the crisis that our country faces. Our nation is essentially in a state of tribal warfare, with two competing camps that have entirely different conceptions of reality.”

2/12

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“Even if one camp may be mostly ‘right’ and the other may be mostly ‘wrong,’ the societal chasm endangers all of us.”

3/12

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“In the same way as oppression gives rise to organizations like ISIS, the injustices baked into our economy have helped to produce the growing threat of domestic terrorism that we now face in our country.”

4/12

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“All of us collectively have created the monster now in front of us. Every single one of us bears responsibility—for not doing more, and for not doing better, long ago, to forestall the crisis that we now face.”

5/12

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“It is never ideal to attempt to find one's way out of a crisis, for problems become increasingly intractable the further they escalate.”

6/12

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“Just like the imperative of containing a virus in the early stages of spread, before transmission reaches pandemic proportions, we must address social ills at the earliest stage possible if we wish to build a society that is truly resilient.”

7/12

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“Nevertheless, even though prevention would have been preferable to cure, we must take sides at this stage. Just as a virus must still be combatted after rampant spread, so must hate.”

8/12

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“Even though the hate may have understandable origins, these underlying determinants do not alter the moral reprehensibility of the hate and the obligation to resist this hate to the greatest extent possible.”

9/12

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“It remains most poignant, however, that if people decide to fight, they will be fighting over virtually nothing, much like children on a playground.”

10/12

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“They will be fighting over issues that they could have united with one another to fight against— peacefully—long ago. They will be fighting the agendas of a societal elite that has pitted multiple marginalized groups against one another.”

11/12

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