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I just watched this episode a couple days ago. Some of it is way too applicable to current day, particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.
I'm not sure how accurate that really is anymore.
If Ulvade and/or SandyHook didn't change anything, nothing else will. :/
What's astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase "9/11 changed everything." But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.
I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it's normal. I guess that is new/changed.
It galvanized the nation for about 4 days, until GWB and other prominent politicians set the populace upon itself, and the divide widened.
The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can't really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.
And it's all a tragedy.
COVID should have done something. It was a world wide issue.
Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politicians to take advantage of, at the cost of people's lives.
I meant something good.
That's what we're talking about.