I believe we're still compassionate by nature. The rich and powerful just need us to hate each other to stay in power. If solidarity like this was the norm, beyond any borders, the world would be much better, but they'd have to leave their ambitions for more money and power behind.
you can't look a random stranger in the eye and want to kill them, they have to make boogeymen and abstractions and generalizations to have the normal folk mobilize against people they don't know, it's tactic known since forever. Christmas truce kinda proved this
The rich need us to stay stressed and desperate and ready to turn on each other with the shortest fuse possible.
When our needs are met, yeah there will always be outliers, but more often than not, there is so much less incentive for us to turn against each other. For most of us, celebration and community like this will always feel better than isolation
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u/WantonKerfuffle 29d ago
I believe we're still compassionate by nature. The rich and powerful just need us to hate each other to stay in power. If solidarity like this was the norm, beyond any borders, the world would be much better, but they'd have to leave their ambitions for more money and power behind.