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user-inactivated  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shooting in chattanooga, 5 dead.

We, as a culture, need our villains. People to hate. We facinate ourselves with them and the narrative is everywhere. Movies and books, politics and current events, sports, history books, on and on. Conflict fuels us, drives us. When we feel a lack of it, we go out and seek it. When we can't find it, we create it. It's a disease and you're seeing a symptom. It's important to learn to filter out the noise