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Introspection.

“A reflective looking inward; an examination of one's own thoughts and feelings.”

Of all the things we’ve lost, I miss that the most.

I’d like to think we could do it, once.

That there was a time when humanity had the courage to look to ourselves, instead of lashing out at those around us.

I suspect we’ve always been this way.

We are shiftless creatures, made lazy by our opposable thumbs and bipedal stance.

All those neurons, pathways, possible journeys in our head, and we refuse to get under the hood.

Because we’re concerned only with others, we find it incomprehensible when our rolling billboard, built by a ketamine cowboy who thinks he’ll forget getting picked last for kickball by making Nazis cool again, draws the ire of the public.

It’s true: no one deserves to be treated that way for buying the World’s Most Pointless Truck. Even if this is the dumbest reason for doing so ever uttered by an apparently functional adult:

The edges of the vehicle are flat and it allows for enough description and visual components to increase our branding.

It’s true, the edges are flat. Like the earth the author of the op-ed lives on. And while it’s true that this is just another piece of Business Insider clickbait, it’s also true that what would have made this a worthwhile read and not just more fodder for my personal outrage machine? At least one paragraph acknowledging what that truck and the company that built it stand for.

I admit to the cultural whiplash for Tesla, from flagship of the libtard fixation with alternative energy to preferred vehicle of the neo-Nazi movement.

But here we are.

I suspect the author has more than one MAGA hat, raps all the words to their “favorite” YG track, and knows that Jesus died for our sins because all lives matter.

Because those people are the ones convinced that they’re the victim. That their free speech is at risk. Their security. Their safety.

Your billboard?

Not the problem.

Seeing keeping it as a stand for freedom?

That. That’s a problem.