• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    During covid, going to a rural area in the US really got to me. The population is so individualistic / freedom-brained / “i do whatever I want all the time”, that their grandmothers all dying meant nothing to them. I got mine keeps meaning smaller and smaller groups of people.

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      Which is surprising because up here in Canada, the socialism started with the farmers. And it’s still going on with coop feed and grain silos and harvester sharing. Farmers don’t let other farmers starve, in Canada.

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        USonians used to be more community-focused. In the 1950s polio was eradicated due to massive community efforts, showing that they were willing to do things to benefit their community.

        Nowadays they won’t even do the same to benefit their extended families.

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          But when he says “smaller and smaller groups of people” does he mean that this kind of mentality isolates people to increasingly smaller groups?

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            It used to apply to different groups in the past.

            Fuck you, my community got ours

            Fuck you, my friend group got ours

            Fuck you, my family got ours

            And now we’re finally at

            Fuck you, I got mine