Shonin on Nostr: We say "the cruelty is the point" a lot and the saying does make a point but I think ...

We say "the cruelty is the point" a lot and the saying does make a point but I think it muddles motivation a little.

Ownership of the space and everything and everyone in it is the point, as it demonstrates advantage, which is equated to strength, the marker of worthiness among those who believe in a merit gospel equating righteousness to an advantage "prosperity gospel."

Prosperity in such minds requires there to be a population of the unprosperous for traction. 1/2