Travelling broadens your mind.
Communism killed 100 ~~million~~ ~~billion~~ trillion people.
Also that ethnostates are bad.
That it's fine to harm another so long as you enjoy it's flesh and muscle.
existence of god obviously.
That we shouldn't care about anything besides our own worldly/ material whims.
I think that might be stress talking.
Everybody agrees that goodness and beauty matter. All of our stories and movies and ideologies say as much.
But when stressed. When security is at stake. And especially if nobody is watching. Yeah we can become selfish little rats.
My point is we go up and down like that. From human to rat and back again. Depending on our stress level.
The state: better manufacture endless crises then!
That's a very deep, generous and insightful post. Thanks. 👍
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