I'm beginning to worry that's true. I'm also worried it's always been true and I've just been wearing heavy rose colored specs!
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The political situation in most Anglo-Saxon / Global North countries atm is so intensely depressing
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Fear! We are undergoing major change, I think, as we expand national interests to global ones. This disrupts the status quo.
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Indeed.I just wish the knee-jerk reaction for so many weren't so bloody illiberal and unpleasantly nationalist
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I'm with you there. I wholly embrace a global shift - I despise nationalism and any fostering of separatist thought.
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I find pticly distressing atm the thousands drowning in the Med as they flee war. Insufficiently "lucky" in their birthplace 😭
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I agree. Furthermore, I think the real horror there is the turning of backs to the situation. Empathy is becoming a rare trait.
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Yes. And not only lack of empathy, but antipathy towards it — walls and fences being built to keep out the improverished Other
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I live mere miles from the Great American Electric Fence. I've watched it be built. It is egregious, abominable, wrong.
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Oh, I live in a hotbox of hatred down here. Fortunately, there's a good bit of a counter-culture alive and well in Tucson.
Jun 9, 2016 · 10:37 AM UTC
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