This is NOT the time to build, grow, & develop. It IS the time to tear-down, deconstruct, and rend what is obsolete, disfunctional, & obstructive. Only in the ruins will it be appropriate (and functional) to rise again.
@AshaLogos By manufacturing ideological consent within each industry, sociatal, and academic sphere that they gained control over. Once they hold the threat of blacklisting, it's over.
@All_Is_Balanced @Morrigan_Astro These states can be had simultaneously, one might argue, considering the ubiquitous threats of the current era & the predatory nature of reality in general, that it's beneficial to do so, but it must first be valued, then trained for.
One might also argue it's hubris to avoid it.
Haven't been able to get this story out of my head. I think this moment is the turning point.
You're either the type of country that allows little innocent girls to be fed to the wolves and forced to defend herself against migrant rapists or you're the type of country where the men say enough is enough and take their country back.
It's now or never.
@ArcasDream Is because Minnesota is an ontological democratic hellhole, the gravity of which requires enormous will to escape. Anecdotally speaking, of course. :)