HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: Statements like “there are too many people in the world” or “people are ...
Statements like “there are too many people in the world” or “people are self-destructive” implicitly position the speaker as being outside the community of humans.
It’s a smug, self-satisfied way of saying “the problem is other people but not me.”
You’re not stuck in traffic; you *are* traffic.
Published at
2024-08-01 08:56:10Event JSON
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