I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but I remember being a young child believing, honestly believing that we would all come together, accept each other's differences and I would see world peace in my lifetime. But that didn't happen now, did it? But that's where we were moving towards in the 80's and the 90's, and then it all came to a fucking halt. Now who is to blame? If you want my honest opinion, this progress was halted here in America by the events of 9-11. This gave us an enemy, someone to reasonably express hate against based off both race and religion. From there it's not a hard sell to turn us all against ALL races and religions. It's a fucking game to them, a very profitable game that feeds off your instincts to hate. We've been pawns, they seen that the teachings of acceptance and love was not ultimately profitable, they seen a world full of love leaves defense budgets worthless (and boy is that a lot of money). You people need to wake the fuck up and start preaching love again. You abandoned your post and let the hate flow, and its really fucking sad.
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[–] cantaloupe6 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
What happened is cultural values are not universal; as assumed when living in a large culture bubble.
As such, the golden rule often leads to the deadly assumption that good intentions beget the same. More so with a decreasing demographic, cultural footprint, and less glad-handling.
That's why hiking in Morocco, etc. can be fatal. (But our good
Time immersed in other cultures allows their hostility to be experienced. That's what Sweden may learn if they survive; too late for Zimbabwe and ZA.
As a young child you probably believed in Santa, that wasn't true either.
It's a red pill; that returning good intentions isn't culturally universal. And that not expecting good intentions does not mean one holds hatred or bad intentions, rather than realistic caution.
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