Xavier 🌻 on Nostr: I feel like Western countries are so far removed from fascism, coddled by modern ...
I feel like Western countries are so far removed from fascism, coddled by modern society's comforts, and lucky enough to have avoided war on their soil, that the populations therein have legitimately forgotten what it's like to live in a world without democracy.
We take everything for granted. We forget that the ease with which we move through life is dependent upon complicated governmental/cultural/social/economic systems, which people before us spent entire generations developing so that we may bear their fruit.
Instead of honoring this gift with awareness and humility, we accept it as something inherent to our reality, unaware of the fact that it needs to be continually maintained, protected, and iterated upon.
ETA: Here's some direct quotes from Francis Fukuyama, whom I was essentially paraphrasing above: https://sunny.garden/@xavier_hm/113309816321436337
#politics #uspol
We take everything for granted. We forget that the ease with which we move through life is dependent upon complicated governmental/cultural/social/economic systems, which people before us spent entire generations developing so that we may bear their fruit.
Instead of honoring this gift with awareness and humility, we accept it as something inherent to our reality, unaware of the fact that it needs to be continually maintained, protected, and iterated upon.
ETA: Here's some direct quotes from Francis Fukuyama, whom I was essentially paraphrasing above: https://sunny.garden/@xavier_hm/113309816321436337
#politics #uspol