KanekoaTheGreat @joerogan is deeply concerned by the dehumanizing rhetoric emanating ...

KanekoaTheGreat
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@joerogan is deeply concerned by the dehumanizing rhetoric emanating from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict and genuinely fearful that escalating tensions in the Middle East could lead to Global Thermonuclear War.

"When you look at what's happened now, oh, my god, the rhetoric from both sides. Didn't we learn anything from World War II? Didn't we learn anything from the Holocaust?

Didn't we learn anything from human beings ability to other human beings? To turn them into a thing that's not them, dehumanize them, and that there's this impulse to do so that existed forever.

Because when we were tribal people that barely had a language, you had to be absolutely terrified of marauding male tribes. They came over your border and wanted to kill you and take your resources and steal your women because that's what they did.

And so we have this ability to look at other human beings as an other and get ruthless and horrifyingly violent because that was the only way for us to survive for thousands of years. It's ingrained in our system.

But it now exists in the context of global war. And it exists in a time where you can manipulate media and spread false narratives and governments are allowed to use propaganda, they're allowed to lie to people, if it's for the overall good of the nation.

It's wild. The root of the issue is how every human being sort of reluctantly admits that there's almost no way to stop all wars. Right now, if you had a magic solution to stop all wars in the world, what would it be?

It doesn't exist, that's terrifying because the thing that we are scared of the most is Global Thermonuclear War. The thing that everybody should be the most terrified of is that we get so stupid, that we wipe every human being off the face of the planet, and we're more than capable of doing it some insane number of times over and they're playing with the very first steps of that game.

They've moved the first pawn out onto the chessboard of the Global Thermonuclear War chess game."
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3:33 PM · Oct 20, 2023
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1715451312983474278