Every decision that has ever been made emerges of a history that long predates that decision ever being available, indeed ever being imaginable.
To posit that if folk were just given the right information—were somehow lifted from ignominious ignorance—they would come to correct and righteous choices, is to engage in fatuous Platonism.
When someone chooses harm, ain't because they don't know any better. They've already a whole lived life that got them here.
Stafford Beer tells us "The purpose of a system is what it does."
To say "This system makes fascists" is to speak to such purpose. Fascism is a choice, a choice that is made, and daily remade, in response to a system of incentives and sanctions one has been habituated to.
So long as those incentives and sanctions remain unchecked, indeed continue to be intensified, the result is determined: More folk choosing more fascism.
This is by design.
Unchallenged, continuing to intensify. #tensegrity
Poster suggest that some folk flourished during 2020—incl. someone close to them—while many others were traumatized. Implied is that those who want to still talk about covid don't recognize just how triggering events surrounding its emergence were.
As 2019 came to an end, there were two types of people: those accustomed to their life being shattered, and those for whom that would be a new experience. Pieces are still being picked up.
This is why even before 2020, the morality play of poverty-as-bad-choices served to underwrite #EgoValue for those of #perquisitive#classposture—the #FrosteanBargain promises an unshattered life for being good.
For those denied tools to do work of #mourning, those unprepared to do hard work of #grief, a default on said social contract is world ending.
Until we—who want to work toward better—address this lack of tools for #grief, confront head on societal aversion to #mourning, we will remain tangled in #tensegrity binds.
Denial is incomplete grief. Anger at reminders of loss—unconcluded mourning. So too bargains made about when precautions ought or ought not be taken.
We must do the work of collective mourning—with utmost urgency.
The only alternative is continuing to rail against "denialism" even as fires of burning planet engulf us all.