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[–] Zink@programming.dev 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just watched this episode a couple days ago. Some of it is way too applicable to current day, particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

I'm not sure how accurate that really is anymore.

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If Ulvade and/or SandyHook didn't change anything, nothing else will. :/

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What's astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase "9/11 changed everything." But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it's normal. I guess that is new/changed.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

It galvanized the nation for about 4 days, until GWB and other prominent politicians set the populace upon itself, and the divide widened.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Well, you don't want the kind of change that 9/11 brought.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can't really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.

And it's all a tragedy.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

COVID should have done something. It was a world wide issue.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politicians to take advantage of, at the cost of people's lives.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I meant something good.
That's what we're talking about.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

I wish that was how it worked! Society would have been so much nicer by now.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there’s there tragic undertone to the whole thing as well. It showed the underclass actually standing up for themselves rather than fighting to keep inequality in place.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That is how society works.