If only personal growth and development were incentivized by our society instead of mashing us into the cogs of capitalism to keep the facade of freedom and democracy alive.

Think about what we could be if everyone one of us focused on amplifying our love and natural talents.

That's the hope.

The problem comes when what you intend is not exactly the change you enact in the world due to lack of knowledge or foresight for the complexity or true nature of a situation

Example would be zealous religious people who believe they're doing right by converting people who may not be open to it

Fuck those people, you deserve kindness and I love you friend.

Oh and the BOTS.

So many bots, who knows how popular that site actually is...

Never going back.

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”

open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked?

but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose.

“Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase,

“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?” Solzhenitsyn asks.

He called the process “a grandiose silent game of solitaire, whose rules were totally incomprehensible to its contemporaries, and whose outlines we can appreciate only now."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in “The Gulag Archipelago” notes that the consolidation of Soviet tyranny “was stretched out over many years because it was of primary importance that it be stealthy and unnoticed.”

White's response defending Mitchell's "right to free speech" is telling; MMA will indeed be the home of racists, white supremacists, fascists. Free speech is not speech without consequence; normalizing these views and those that follow genocidal ideology with a billion$ corporation is plain evil.