| | | Almost everywhere you go in my neck of the woods (even in my relatively conservative enclave), you see signs "We Are All In This Together".....posted at the entry to most stores (mask up - we are all in this together).....signs posted all over the Kaiser facilities....makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and I've had trouble conceptualizing why that is. It's a refutation of individuality....join US....become a member of the tribe.
Famously used in campaigns by HRC and earlier by BHO. It looks like Nixon used it in reference to the Vietnam War. It appears to be rooted from "Solidarity" which was the motto of the French Revolution - then they lopped off a bunch of heads...... and also used by essentially every socialist revolutionary after that.
It means the same as:
- It's for the greater good (actually had a Dr. say this to me about getting the CV shots for our teens)
- Do it for the children
- Do it for Grandma - don't be a Granny killer
- Workers of the World, Unite!
in their 1848 Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels conceptualized solidarity as an expression of the shared experience and specific political needs of the working class....solidarity depends on some idea of what it means to be “us.”
- “Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!” ? Che Guevara
It's essentially a Social Contract.
Here's an article by a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist on what it means to him....forsake Darwinian thinking....forsake the Patriarchy....welcome the Socialist Utopian Society. (his pronoun appears to be "vampire"?)
eand.co
What “We’re In It Together” Really Means
How Coronavirus is Reminding Us What it Means to be a Civilized Society — The Hard Way
umair haque
Mar 30, 2020
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“We’re in it together” means undoing a mindset that’s the residue of centuries. Centuries of violence. Violence done by supremacy, patriarchy, and capital. Which all hinge on a Darwinian logic: only the strong should survive, and the weak should perish. To supremacy, the weak are the racially impure, who deserve to be enslaved and annihilated. To patriarchy, the weak is the feminized male and obviously the woman. To capital, the weak one is the prole, who deserves to be exploited mercilessly, to the point of being turned against himself and his loved ones.
Take a hard look around the world. Take a harder look at America. Doesn’t all that pretty much exactly, precisely describe the general attitude, sentiment, feeling, that’s come to pervade our societies — or that we’ve never quite yet outgrown and matured beyond?
What “we’re all in it together” really is is this: the precise negation of Darwinian morality. No, the weak shouldn’t perish so the strong can survive. That is not how we make a society “fitter” at all. The way that we make a society better — stronger, smarter, wiser, tougher, closer — is to shelter and nourish and protect the weakest, first of all.
They are the test and measure of us. A society that cannot protect and nourish its weak will never have working social systems at all. A society that still has people defined as “weak” is still immature and undeveloped. Such a place will be vulnerable to every kind of calamity. Such a place will self-destruct at the slightest touch.
Do you see how these two great moralities are opposed? One is the morality, today, of capitalism: the weak should be exploited by the strong. The other is the morality of social democracy: the weak should be protected and nurtured. But we are all weak in different ways, which means we must all be protected and nurtured. Some of us are old, some of us are young, some are poor, some are afraid, some alone. Nobody is really “strong”, on their own, at all. The best that we can do is to genuinely care for one another. |
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