What astonishes me over and over is how frequently we get these dreadful exposes of monstrous things our government in partnership with academia has done--regardless of which party is in power--and yet all the bright caring intellectuals, or ambitious lawyers, etc. etc., keep sending their kids to Harvard or Johns Hopkins etc. etc. etc. because what's a little torture, in the scheme of things? And that word *torture* covers such a range of activities it's just an amazingly capacious concept.
The population of Good Germans is just crowding out every other life form, it seems.
And this behavior is everywhere. Every single organized religious group has its sex abuse scandals. Nobody ever wants to really clean up their own cesspools. There's always this fantasy that, well, at least, say, the Buddhists don't do that! [Insert pet group as appropriate.]
By my own choice I lived overseas at various times over the course of my adulthood, and eventually I learned that it was better to live in America, regardless of all our flaws and failures, than to live anywhere else. I was fortunate to have already left NY when the Plague Era hit and to therefore have had only some performative nonsense (that I too supported in the beginning) inflicted on me. This has been a very educational era. But still not enough people have learned the correct lessons from it. We got a lot of work ahead of us.
What astonishes me over and over is how frequently we get these dreadful exposes of monstrous things our government in partnership with academia has done--regardless of which party is in power--and yet all the bright caring intellectuals, or ambitious lawyers, etc. etc., keep sending their kids to Harvard or Johns Hopkins etc. etc. etc. because what's a little torture, in the scheme of things? And that word *torture* covers such a range of activities it's just an amazingly capacious concept.
The population of Good Germans is just crowding out every other life form, it seems.
And this behavior is everywhere. Every single organized religious group has its sex abuse scandals. Nobody ever wants to really clean up their own cesspools. There's always this fantasy that, well, at least, say, the Buddhists don't do that! [Insert pet group as appropriate.]
By my own choice I lived overseas at various times over the course of my adulthood, and eventually I learned that it was better to live in America, regardless of all our flaws and failures, than to live anywhere else. I was fortunate to have already left NY when the Plague Era hit and to therefore have had only some performative nonsense (that I too supported in the beginning) inflicted on me. This has been a very educational era. But still not enough people have learned the correct lessons from it. We got a lot of work ahead of us.