RE: They came for my salt shaker and then my sugar bowl
Answering #19: yes, in the end we Americans have a
strong tendency to choose optimism, but it is not always
justified. And when it is not, we have a knack for making
others pay for the price of our bad decision, using that
same optimism as an excuse for not noticing what we
really did.
In the case of global warming, we have already lost the
chance to prevent severe damage due to the bad
decision, we are not rapidly losing even the chance to
mitigate the damage.
In the case of salt and sugar, corporations encourage
people to make the wrong decision, and then the
system transfers the blame to the victim when they pay
the high medical bills.
