who do you think would be the best person to represent america?
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[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
The fact it's so hard to come up with a single name is part of the problem... the media doesn't really focus on people actually doing good in the world.
Often, anyone who takes a moral stand within the current culture of corruption is only able to do so once, then they are ostracized or worse. Our corporate and media systems filter those people out, because morals and having a backbone is goes against the drive to maximize profit and keep order for the existing order.
Newscasters get fired for speaking the truth, amazon workers get fired for unionizing so they can have pee breaks, intelligence agencies tried to get MLK Jr to kill himself and he was later assassinated... and nowadays someone like MLK Jr wouldn't even get air time. Where is today's MLK Jr? Where is today's JFK?
Instead if we listen to the media, we're meant to look up to people like football players, or fictional superheros, or greedy billionaires. Where are the real heros? And do most people care? Most people seem content to live in a fictional world, while their real world gets worse and worse. They avoid discomfort and thus the uncomfortable problems never get addressed.
[–]Markimus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
and nowadays someone like MLK Jr wouldn't even get air time. Where is today's MLK Jr?
Lol what? MLK went around America bringing riots to cities, he was the original BLM. MLK is EVERYWHERE today.
[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Not really... that's quite a mischaracterization of MLK imo
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