I have seen a huge increase in the amount of hate and uninformed propaganda floating around the internet this week. I don’t know if it is because Donald Trump has successfully framed hate mongering as speaking your mind or if we have reached the end of an era where people still remember why so many ended up dying in the second world war. Nationalism was not good for the world in the 1930s and I don’t think it is good for the world today. We need more compassion, not less. Our world is smaller than ever. Without tolerance and empathy, there are going to be a lot of people going through their lives angry and unhappy.
“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.” - Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
1 comment:
Yes and yes.
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