Ricemoon on Nostr: "One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a ...

"One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the faults of an entire system on a single individual. Remove that individual, cast him out like some medieval demon, and reality, we are told, will correct itself. The result is a kind of political fairy tale for adults: once there was an ugly, crude, ill-mannered president, and he ruined everything. As for the system? It remains fundamentally sound—needing only a bit more decorum, more carefully chosen language, and perhaps another Nobel Peace Prize or two, handed out between the manufacturing of crises and the staging of wars and genocides."
https://savageminds.substack.com/p/the-empire-of-cannibals