Gregory's Server@ewen I think I try to remember that as much as it feels personal, it isn't. And I don't mean that as a way of deflecting blame but as we cultivate poorer and poorer ways of community care, we can't really expect folks to look out after anyone but themselves - because we've created whole environments that forced people to.
Churches have divided themselves over who people can love since their inception, government has divided who can count as 'people', capitalism has divided -
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@ewen who can even have the ability to participate in society, and education has always been just out of reach of the majority of folks.
But the best I can hope for is that change - even with the worst growing pains still teaches us who we -want- to be rather than who we're -forced- to be. And being human, we're always bad at things before we get good at them.
I like to hope that as we continue to move forward, and as the illusion of the western-style lives we've cultivated dissipate, we grow up