A society in which it’s everyone for themselves, that refuses to care for one another, is no society at all. Then everyone acts shocked and horrified at someone who understandably snaps, like modern western culture doesn’t run entirely on schadenfreude.

That was the crux of the idea of a social contract, which is long dead in the US. Now people line up to revel in the suffering of their fellow citizens with “well you were stupid to do xyz in life, so you deserve your suffering haha.”

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        I suppose I should have known better than to expect someone so grossly self righteous to do any reflection.

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          1 year ago

          You out here psychoanalyzing social media posts. No one’s gonna bring the grass to you.

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            Calling out arrogance is psychoanalysis now? Oh, how the bar has dropped