We as Americans are taught in our school system to glorify war, especially the Revolutionary War. It was largely neighbors killing neighbors over taxation.
We, us in Michigan, recently had idiots running around the state capital with assault riffles and effigies of the governor being lynched. They think mistakes made by the governor are worth killing her, cops and the national guard over. I blame elementary school teachers and their textbooks. They raised us without insight on war as to the glory of it. They raised us to be ultra-nationalistic and fear humanism while refusing to let children question the existence of anthropomorphic deities that were originally never mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance. Our goal as humans should be the survival of our loved ones, but it is a false dichotomy to think that nationalism should be pitted against globalism. If one looks at human biology from a macro-level they see life thrives on complexity. All the inter-breeding is partially what makes America kind of awesome at times. Rather than struggling to wipe out each other, we should realize putting our ultra-nationalism before our moral foundation of morality is absurd. It doesn’t have to be clearly definable or an anthropomorphic deity. Even if one values compassion, love, humility, and joy in humanity instead of God, it should be respected as a moral foundation, especially when actions rationally follow that which show that person isn’t deluded in egocentric selfishness. Hell, I value freedom. I do. Invading the state capital with guns isn’t about freedom. It is about intimidation with violence, but more importantly a complete disregard for not only our legal framework in how we resolve our grievances, but a complete lack of value for human life. Grow up neo-revolutionaries. You’re not wanting to kill over survival or free speech. You want to kill. That’s it. It’s an obsession with a Revolutionary war no one alive lived through that elementary schools are largely to blame for by stoking it with grandeur. Revolutionary Civil War is a really fucking dumb idea and completely disconnected in cognition and affect from the pragmatic reality we’d be stuck in. You all want to kill; not talk. We can talk online. Protesting with guns isn’t about resolving the problem. It’s about wanting to kill the other tribes. It’s a vestigual instinct. It’s evil. I don’t need to believe in God or Satan to get that. Obviously the Christian revolutionaries don’t actually believe their forked tounged pressure to pretend to believe what they pretend to believe either. Perhaps while the schools are closed, we should all rethink the entire way we view our revolutionary history, and our bottom up approach to the socialization of children towards compassion over a complete misunderstanding of how evolution works.
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