Cruelty really isn’t the status quo. You could argue like on the government side of things that there are corrupt officials and things like that and they are cruel.
But if you look at the average person and the average neighborhood and judge the way they think and feel and act, you’re going to find kindness dominates over cruelty and the human nature is generally positive.
And 50% of the time the “kindness” people expect of you turns out to be tool of repression by keeping you in line with what is the expected norms.
Pretty Punk of you, telling others what aspect of stereotypical Punk behavior is acceptable and what makes them a poseur. Definetly showed those sellouts how to not conform!
Over the past forty years, vulnerable populations have fallen deeper into deprivation due to dismantling of welfare, the commons have been robustly stripped from communities through privatization, and policing, incarceration, imperialism, and surveillance have massively expanded.
I would suggest cruelty is systemically entrenched, and the harm being caused by governments is more comprehensive than simply through a thin sprinkling of corrupt officials.
Cruelty really isn’t the status quo. You could argue like on the government side of things that there are corrupt officials and things like that and they are cruel.
But if you look at the average person and the average neighborhood and judge the way they think and feel and act, you’re going to find kindness dominates over cruelty and the human nature is generally positive.
And 50% of the time the “kindness” people expect of you turns out to be tool of repression by keeping you in line with what is the expected norms.
Don’t be kind, be you.
Pretty Punk of you, telling others what aspect of stereotypical Punk behavior is acceptable and what makes them a poseur. Definetly showed those sellouts how to not conform!
Over the past forty years, vulnerable populations have fallen deeper into deprivation due to dismantling of welfare, the commons have been robustly stripped from communities through privatization, and policing, incarceration, imperialism, and surveillance have massively expanded.
I would suggest cruelty is systemically entrenched, and the harm being caused by governments is more comprehensive than simply through a thin sprinkling of corrupt officials.
Performative cruelty is everywhere. Sure slow it down and people are nice. But its pretty radical to just be kind from the get-go.