#because we never reach deep extensive change. maybe that's the curse of the human lifespan but well i mean i'm inclined to say that | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bredforloyalty · 1 year ago

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this paragraph in particular is very concise and sums it up well imo:

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable—or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.

(from the bully's pulpit)

#so so so important. to me. bc there are some situations and regular occurrences and atrocities where it's not nearly enough to analyze #it on a personal or interpersonal level. rather it's obscuring the real reasons and the solutions if it's not treated as a societal problem #if only the symptoms are treated. they get therapy they're taken to jail they're fired or ostracized but the structures aren't exposed #and it just happens over and over again or rather it doesn't happen less #because we never reach deep extensive change. maybe that's the curse of the human lifespan but well i mean i'm inclined to say that #we HAVE to believe we'll make it out..#kata.txt #words

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