What I love about Luigi - Madeline Silver

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I enjoyed reading this short piece and wanted to share it with you all.

🐝 Addison

2024-12-24 · 6 months ago

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🐝 undefined · 2024-12-24 at 08:54:

You know, over the years, as you read what others have written, sometimes you agree completely, sometimes you disagree, sometimes you take one or two things and leave the rest. And one thing I've noticed for myself is that, the common part between all the pieces that I disagree with is not the social or economic outlook: there's a lot of circumstances in life that would lead you to lean one way or the other, upbringing plays an especially large part in that, and it's hard to judge people over things they've not had control over.

What makes me totally unsympathetic is this insect-like visciousness. If you're willing to dehumanize others and yourself to bring about "justice" or "freedom" or any other abstract concept, that to me is the best indicator that you don't understand the meaning of any of those words. You just want an excuse for something no normal person would ever excuse.

🐝 undefined · 2024-12-24 at 09:12:

And what I think the problem is, fundamentally, is that you convinced yourself of your own inner righteousness. When you even for a moment let yourself entertain the thought that you're not just another ant on the anthill, but you're something above that, you risk becoming something reprehensible. You can get out of it the same way, but it's a lot more difficult than going the other way around.

👻 darkghost · 2024-12-24 at 11:58:

We are all the heroes of our own story. That's why there's an inner righteousness. Without any self reflection, you're capable of many dark things to feed that righteousness.

I think there's a social righteousness in situations such as this because we, as a society, permit murder by the very powerful. If you do it to a lot of people, do it as part of a company, and filter it through an abstraction layer, you can literally get away with murder. Denying claims for life saving treatment, or selling opioids your marketing department says are not addictive are two notorious examples in the public consciousness. Add in a dose of anti-authority conditioning through the media and you've got a powder keg.

👻 darkghost · 2024-12-24 at 11:59:

The feel good story of 2011 was a couple that foreclosed on a bank. Same righteousness, but they were in the legal right at that time.

🚀 lucifer · 2024-12-24 at 16:58:

I am not going to shed a single tear for Insurance Boy. My mom died of pancreatic cancer that could have been diagnosed years earlier, but it wasn't, because she was self-employed and uninsured. They diagnosed it when she collapsed on the job and got dragged to the ER. *But*, it is worth reading the following: gemini://library.inu.red/document/crimethinc-against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine Our objective is to deprive these skin-wastes of power over us, not to exact bloody revenge. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

🚀 stack · 2024-12-24 at 20:14:

Corporate Personhood At Fault!

As long as we treat corporations as persons, and shield executives for their actions on behalf of these monstrosities, actual people will suffer.

People should be responsible for their actions.