Red vs Blue: Divided Nation - Luke Gromen on Network State Podcast

#socialdivide

‘It is in each individual's conscience that society stakes its destiny. The most admirable institutions are mere relics if the persons who are supposed to preserve them do not respect their spirit and are incapable of adapting them to circumstances .’

Corine Pelluchon in her book ‘Éthique de la considération’, 2018

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#socialinjustice metaphor:

A property has two sides, which are separated by a thick, armoured wall. On one side lives a very rich millionaire with armoured clothes, an armoured house and a car. Everything is protected against explosions, shrapnel and firearms.

On the other side, a great many poor people, at least 100 thousand, live in a very small space. Children, babies, pensioners and the like. Without any protection, of course.

Now a small bomb is threatening to explode, another millionaire has to decide on which side of the wall the bomb will explode. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the poorer side is always chosen, even though the millionaire on the other side wouldn't even get a scratch.

This is the metaphor about the financial injustices in this world.

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