There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type “truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump” into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a…
Outsiders can agree all they want about that fact, but truth is created in small rooms it seems, and that truth can be very different than day to day reality.
The rules of the game that were setup are complicated, and the players are currently still willing to play even though they didn’t originally know or imagine playing the game this way themselves, it seems to them to be a valid way to play.
The regular people also play along, because of the rules of the game, even though how it’s played has changed, and some rules they thought couldn’t be changed can be, so they don’t all like playing anymore, but they are always the first to try to leave the game, so there are many guard rails in place to see that they cannot disturb the real players too much. Even though they could… Generally they don’t.
So no, sanity is not politics, but that’s already baked in.
Outsiders can agree all they want about that fact, but truth is created in small rooms it seems, and that truth can be very different than day to day reality. The rules of the game that were setup are complicated, and the players are currently still willing to play even though they didn’t originally know or imagine playing the game this way themselves, it seems to them to be a valid way to play. The regular people also play along, because of the rules of the game, even though how it’s played has changed, and some rules they thought couldn’t be changed can be, so they don’t all like playing anymore, but they are always the first to try to leave the game, so there are many guard rails in place to see that they cannot disturb the real players too much. Even though they could… Generally they don’t. So no, sanity is not politics, but that’s already baked in.