It’s not who we tell ourselves we are. But it’s exactly who we’ve always been

nah we’re objectively more evil now as a society because the people who decide what we see on our phones want us to be

I don’t know how to empirically measure evil, but the US has some tremendously vile behavior in its past. What’s happening now is terrible but I don’t think it’s worse than Jim Cow, Slavery, etc. People don’t change but you’d hope by now we’d at least know better