• 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒
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    232 days ago

    Does something that scale even recognize or care for an individual ant as it crosses or destroys a city?

    • @papalonian
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      122 days ago

      Not at all, just like we don’t recognize or care for the hundreds of ants and anthills we destroy in every step. It doesn’t have to care about you to squish you

      • @[email protected]
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        122 days ago

        I want to learn your secret walking techniques capable of destroying entire anthills with every step.

        • @papalonian
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          82 days ago

          And I don’t want to live where you live where anthills are more formidable than my shoe 😅

        • @[email protected]OP
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          52 days ago

          there’s a metaphor here for social structures performing violence at a distance and that abstraction leading to perceived safety of the individual within that framework leading to complacency but im tired