node created 2019/09/29
If you care about other people, thatā€™s now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. Thatā€™s not going to happen if you care only about yourself. Maybe you can become rich, but you donā€™t care whether other peopleā€™s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that. In the United States, thatā€™s called ā€œlibertarianā€ for some wild reason. I mean, itā€™s actually highly authoritarian, but that doctrine is extremely important for power systems as a way of atomizing and undermining the public.