Here is the thing about salting the earth. Nothing grows. Not their seeds. Not yours. Not anyone’s.
And here is the thing about manufactured hate — because it is manufactured, most of it. People are not born hating their neighbors. Love comes naturally when you are loved. You kick back when you are kicked. The cattle prod of algorithmic rage, the deliberate cultivation of an enemy to look down at instead of a mirror to look into — that is not human nature expressing itself. That is human nature being weaponized by people who need you angry and need you certain and above all need you not paying attention to the road and how it was built.
