nat on Nostr: It's the deepest form of paternalism: you know what is best for everyone else, and ...

It's the deepest form of paternalism: you know what is best for everyone else, and you have to force them to see it by forcing them to live your way.

Like trying to build a nationwide reeducation camp, akin to the boarding schools for Indigenous children or conversion camps for gay kids.

And this is the *greatest good you are able to imagine* within the stunted confines of the imagination you've been groomed to inhabit.