It’s metaphorically, just as building for them is a metaphor. I’m not building anything. Building for me would mean building for people like me. Be it progeny or someone who is lucky enough to be born similar to the way I am and believe similar things.
And yes, I was referring to MAGA, subtext, but doesn’t have to be MAGA or political at all. It’s a thought experiment.
(Also note I was stoned. As I do from time to time)
The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.
The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.
We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.
It’s metaphorically, just as building for them is a metaphor. I’m not building anything. Building for me would mean building for people like me. Be it progeny or someone who is lucky enough to be born similar to the way I am and believe similar things.
And yes, I was referring to MAGA, subtext, but doesn’t have to be MAGA or political at all. It’s a thought experiment.
(Also note I was stoned. As I do from time to time)
I mean, I get that it’s a metaphor.
The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.
The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.
We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.