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    8 days ago

    Thats somehow so upside down philosophically. In human history we established states and gave them the monopoly of violence, so that we don’t crush each others heads all the time (at least inside the state) or so that some guy who is stronger or has better weapons can’t just take all our stuff because he wants to.
















  • The quote of Asimov is on point. As a non-American, I remember rewatching “Friends” after Trump came into office and suddenly noticed this subliminal anti-intellectualism even in this rather progressive left leaning TV show: Ross is often ridiculed as boring or arrogant when he talks about science or just trying to be factual, whereas the stupidity of Joey and the superstition and denial of reality of phoebe are glorified as funny and quirky and often shown as equal or even superior to Ross’ intellectualism.