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Why should we care?
I honestly believe that history will know us as a people only concerned with our indulgences and digital escapes.
The slop is starting to taste like slop now? Ok. It's getting harder to escape through the mediums you've been accustomed to? Ok. Why should we be allowed to escape anymore?
I don't think any facet of western terror can be separated from our proclivity to hide in its benefits and escape from addressing it.
It's good to remind people how and why the one thing capitalism promised them is absolute bull