• Rothe@piefed.social
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    14 days ago

    Also it assumes any type of American governance is capable of learning from the experiences of others.

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          13 days ago

          Moreso a nation with profound mental health challenges. Like that movie which psychoanalyzed corporations using human diagnostic tools, if you examine American culture that way, we are a deeply, deeply traumatized society. Just as a for-instance, so many of us hate and fear interacting with our fellow citizens (like, preferring the isolation of a car and conceptualizing public transport as full of danger and urine), but at the same time suffering from a major loneliness epidemic.

          We could really do with an adult to force us into therapy.