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7 days agoWhen the entirety of human culture is geared toward who can be the most “competitive” within the confines of the law (which these people constantly challenge anyway) should we expect anything different than the main beneficiaries to be people who just generally suck? People who are most likely terrible to interact with personally. Dudes who literally probably don’t have a single friend that isn’t transactional because their entire being is dedicated to the pursuit of capital that they misidentify as legacy. I guess it might be easy to sleep with silk sheets, a penthouse view, and all the ketamine; but god must that existence be empty.
I think this rant is very relevant and I feel inclined to follow suit!
Unfortunately the Republican Party does an exceptional job at pandering to the self aggrandizing rhetoric that their base holds so dear. The rhetoric that gives them the very clearly defined notion to believe they are superior to the left without actually doing ANYTHING to support any superiority. Humans have a hard time with self esteem and it appears a large group of Americans (MAGA) need an enemy (citizens of color, immigrants, the left) to feel any sort of self-worth all while their “leaders” lead in the most reprehensible way possible; in their own self-interest, from the rear, without regard for the people they are “leading”.
I’ve said it in other rants but from my perspective how could the western world be surprised that we’ve reached a time when almost every capitalistic country is at a point where the most savage, morally reprehensible, and self-interested people are leading the rest of us when the entire system rewards people who succeed the best at accumulating money (power) by any means necessary? Like these dudes both sides of the aisle may be interesting to talk to, in a clinical setting, but explain to me how a snake oil salesman like Trump can be reported as succeeding in life by any other metric other than accumulating capital?