That’s exactly right. We stopped holding people accountable, we normalized bad behavior as “that’s just how it is” and became comfortable with it always happening. Anger is a useful tool. It has a purpose. This is its purpose. Maybe it would’ve been good to become angry about all this earlier, but that water has already gone under the bridge and it’s not coming back. We are here now, and now is the right time to be angry about *gestures vaguely at everything*.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Power corrupts. Every time. The only way to work around that is accountability. The people we give power to get it for a limited amount of time and with clear rules on what they’re allowed to do with it. If you break the rules, you’re held accountable. That#s how a modern democracy works. Once accountability breaks down we get *gestures vaguely at everything*
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
naught101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not just democracy… methods of keeping power in check like that are something every well functioning society needs. Wengrow and Graeber’s book The Dawn Of Everything lays this out pretty clearly.