" It’s not until you’ve done a fair bit of research that you go, wait, okay no, we are actually quantifiably far more destructive than any other power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin."
I don't know why this is so hard a concept for some Westerners to understand. If you live in a country that has nuclear weapons and uses them to threaten the rest of the planet into cooperating with them, causing others to cave in every chance they get, then that's an indication you're not living in a "good guy" country. It's like that viral video says, "Are we the baddies?" Yeah, Uncle Sam fetishers, we are the baddies. Start working on getting us well.
I think most, if not all, of us are born the protagonists of our own lives, and into a narrative that shapes how we see the world. For many, that narrative and perspective, apparently, never changes. That suggests breaking out of the narrative is very difficult, and extremely unpleasant. That might account for at least some of why it’s so hard.
" It’s not until you’ve done a fair bit of research that you go, wait, okay no, we are actually quantifiably far more destructive than any other power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin."
I don't know why this is so hard a concept for some Westerners to understand. If you live in a country that has nuclear weapons and uses them to threaten the rest of the planet into cooperating with them, causing others to cave in every chance they get, then that's an indication you're not living in a "good guy" country. It's like that viral video says, "Are we the baddies?" Yeah, Uncle Sam fetishers, we are the baddies. Start working on getting us well.
I think most, if not all, of us are born the protagonists of our own lives, and into a narrative that shapes how we see the world. For many, that narrative and perspective, apparently, never changes. That suggests breaking out of the narrative is very difficult, and extremely unpleasant. That might account for at least some of why it’s so hard.