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The more time I spend in this country the more I realize a lot of people, though especially Americans, are overgrown children. They have childish understandings of history, social movements, violence, etc. Their sense of morals has childish foundations and so it flounders in the wind and is only capable of producing chaos—something reflected perfectly in the “workings” of the current administration. It’s as if they based their whole approach to life on simplistic googoogaagaa pre-K cartoons they watched as kids, and in that surety everything is at a level and interachangeable, such that they can grant themselves the luxuries of antisocial attitudes while reaping the benefits of prosocial ones. This, too, is reflected in the current administration. That’s about all the commentary I have to give as I process the implications of this, because I will not let this distract me or take my eye off the ball.

Aside from that, unfortunate to have heard a school shooting happened yet again around the same time though. Hopefully one day kids will be able to live without this sort of worry. Speaking for myself at this point I have little to no hope for the American project even at the national domestic level (at the foreign policy level it was already a foregone conclusion a long time ago..). Maybe at some point I’ll need to learn some Mandarin.