Not at all, just like we don’t recognize or care for the hundreds of ants and anthills we destroy in every step. It doesn’t have to care about you to squish you
there’s a metaphor here for social structures performing violence at a distance and that abstraction leading to perceived safety of the individual within that framework leading to complacency but im tired
Does something that scale even recognize or care for an individual ant as it crosses or destroys a city?
Not at all, just like we don’t recognize or care for the hundreds of ants and anthills we destroy in every step. It doesn’t have to care about you to squish you
I want to learn your secret walking techniques capable of destroying entire anthills with every step.
And I don’t want to live where you live where anthills are more formidable than my shoe 😅
As an individual ant, I like those odds.
there’s a metaphor here for social structures performing violence at a distance and that abstraction leading to perceived safety of the individual within that framework leading to complacency but im tired
I guess you could say I’m a libertariant.