It just feels like all the negative consequences of bad decisions over the past few decades are growing blatantly obvious, while the same forces that prevented us from doing anything about it back then are trying to take over and prevent us from doing anything. Still.
Even now.
I just don't know which part of the whole thing I wanted to focus on. Like, our biases and the frustrating way people fool themselves into believing things that just aren't so?
The arrogance behind people who made up their minds about an issue forty years ago - and then never revisited it. Never considered that hey, maybe they were wrong.
The shortsighted selfishness and greed that has people who benefited from the current system block any attempts to make it better.
Or the way these shortsighted fools are probably not going to suffer the consequences of their actions. How they'll flit off to some survival bunker in New Zealand, or use their money to recover from tornadoes or hurricanes or floods or fires.
They've successfully blocked all efforts at fixing major problems, and now we all have to suffer for their idiocy, and nothing quite captures the sense of helpless rage when you realize that.
But what's the use? We've got powerful people so lost to any sense or reason that they made a fucking powerpoint that goes against everything our system stands for, and apparently none of the people who saw it realized - not just that it was a bad idea, but that it was potentially illegal. Seditionist, treasonous, I'll let lawyers sort out the correct legal terms, but they apparently didn't see what's wrong with it. At all.
What can you do when that many people have lost their moral compass?
When the rot is that widespread?
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