Are You Thinking About People as Individuals?

If you start seeing people as individuals, then you can get together and bond over things you share in common, like barbecue. Stop thinking that structural determinism and material determinism is real. You have to be thinking terms of power dynamics. The founders of this country had it right, the idea that all men are created equal was not a literal statement but they meant politically equal. And so that when people can't resolve their disputes one to one, as man to man or person to person, then they can go to a, you know, outside arbitrator that's going to help them mediate that situation. It creates functioning societies, a cross difference that can flourish. In a liberal system