Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.
He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department’s promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God, potentially risking the military’s secular mission and hard-won pluralism.
Now the defense secretary’s Christian rhetoric has taken on new meaning after the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran, an Islamic theocracy.
No, the problem is there is no innate human empathy for humans…
Just for “us” which was likely the reason every species close to us, isn’t around anymore.
Oxytocin is pivotal neurotransmitters for group bonding, it’s why we get lonely, fall in love, and think babies are adorable despite being disgusting.
But oxytocin also makes us hate “them”
Where “them” is anything we weren’t exposed to as toddlers.
Racism/bigotry is baked into humans, and it takes effort to teach every generation that “us” is a very very wide group. Where “them” is basically just billionaires and people doing their building. That’s already where the wealthy have been drawing the line for centuries.
It’s like socializing a puppy around cats so that when the puppy grows up it doesn’t have a prey instinct kick in and chase cats.
We need to socialize kids so that when they grow up they don’t freak out over diversity.
And we’ll never be able to stop, every single generation till the end of humanity will need that step