The Freedom Preacher!
We got this. Contrary to the long-standing mythology about the inevitability of endless conflict and strife among people everywhere, we humans are quite capable of living together peacefully. We are led to believe that the endless turmoil is simply part of who we are, as inevitable and endless as the tides.
This is the fundamental lie about our species, the one on which all the other lies are built. It’s not a feature – it’s a bug. And it has been created and maintained intentionally.
An Answer to Rodney King 9/4/23
Rodney King famously (and, I believe, rhetorically) asked “Why can’t we all just get along?”
I answered this question in some detail several years ago. Here is what I wrote back then: