Good Douglas Rushkoff rant on the Current Situation.

Introspection and self-loathing are extremely positive when they can be used to make real changes to one’s outlooks and behaviors. But they can be crippling when taken too far, or when they’re indulged at the wrong moment.

Similarly, fist-waving and hyper-patriotic rhetoric seems, to me, like a retreat into the symbols of an ancient war rather than an expression of the values we aim to defend.

This is an opportunity take our ongoing struggle for plurality and human creativity to the next level. For more consciousness, not less. For the dismantling of a war machine that is, in part, our own creation.

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