Uh no. I mean like just normal people. Should they respect other people and respect property or not. Like should I go slap the sht out of the next person I see with a septum ring or is my privilege what’s telling me not to do that? Or if I don’t like something a politician says and I go destroy something, is that lack of privilege? Like just basic human decency and respect, is that privilege?
Imma go to bed tbh, its late and I gotta wake up with the baby and get the kids ready for school. But people, and cultures don't happen in a vacuum. They happen in the context through which they were derived.
And despite maga's best efforts to argue different, the U.S. is a culture that is one of the youngest in the world, and its certainly the youngest culture/nationality of all the super powers. We are YOUNG. We're
new in the grand scheme of major modern societies of the world.
Our ethos, our culture, will change and is still finding itself. To reduce it to 50 years is ridiculous. To reduce the ethos of a culture to be solidified after 250 years is ridiculous, in comparison of the history of the world.
If it feels like it was supposed to be and SHOULD be a certain way, thats simply ridiculous when you look at the history of civilized and modern society. We're all fighting for what the culture of this 250 year old nation SHOULD be, not trying to recover what it WAS, as we only have 2 centuries and a half to pull from. The rest of the world has Millienia+. I think that's always helpful to remember.
I feel like the squirrelly/malleable nature of our new nation should lead us to be always reforming/changing/and progressing. That's what history teaches us. Not to get to a place of complacency and stopping, or simply stopping at a time that is idealized.
The true ideal of the U.S. is PEOPLE FIRST, not manufacturing or technology first. Because if our manufactural and technological infrastructure is not propping up or helping the least of us, what is the point? It's completely counterintuitive to what this nation was built on.
We have an opportunity to push the world further, and help enable MORE people, and in doing so we will push the technology and infrastructure further. Is this not the plot of literally all "zero to hero" stories we so love? But we can't lose site or write off the people who have been adversely set up or who don't benefit as much from the "system/utopian ideal" the U.S. is built on. Because if we lose them or we lose the ethos of their right of being here, we lose our core identity.