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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I doubt that means much to people out of eyesight and earshot to whom we've never allowed to have the same liberty and peace.
Sure, and to be clear I mean a liberty and peace that includes everyone that has historically been marginalized and abused by this nation's governments and by people who think they're superior to everyone else.
The problem with a melting pot (particularly one that was started by murdering and stealing land from a continent's worth of indigenous people) is that it puts bigots right next to the people they hate.
The benefit of a melting pot is that if the incoming generation can avoid being programmed into hatred by their parents, society trends toward true equality and equity.
I'm trying to maintain optimism that this current extreme escalation is the flailing death throes of a generation raised into bigotry and self-aggrandization, and that we'll come out the other side of this being a better society (the younger generations today are so much more openly altruistic and progressive on the whole).
Well, I don't fault you for any of it. This part will require vigorously investigating, rooting out our liberal narrative, and reeducating ourselves.