cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3190048

I've been languishing in my comfort zone. Continuing to do so will have terrible effects for me. To quote Marx, I "[have] become a monster, a huge mass of flesh and fat, and [am] barely capable of walking any more." Ever since the pandemic started I've become a terminally online antisocial weirdo who barely ever leaves my room, let alone the house.

Of course, in addition to the damage this does to my personal life, it also makes me non - potentially even counter - revolutionary. As someone who wants to be a communist instead of just some internet poisoned middle class dilettante, I don't know how I can be expected to jeopardize the comfort of my parasitic labor aristocratic class position when I can't even get out of my comfort zone enough to go outside, eat real food, and do even the barest minimum of light exercise.

  • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    You have to find something you want to motivate you. If you really truely want to just vibe all day that is what you will get. You have to want somwthing, to have some Intrinsic motivation to force yourself to move towards a goal. Which, in some way just vibing and taking care of yourself is important. If nothing else find a club to join. Just having a routine for getting out and having fun will start building your capacity to get out and do more. Play is important

    • WithoutFurtherBelay
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      10 months ago

      no, they’re not depressed because they “don’t care about communism enough”

      • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        Is that the point I made? Let me try again. If they are feeling complacent and have difficulty going out they need to practice the skill of going out. They will probbably have to bribe themselves by going and having fun doing something they like. Eventually they will get good at going out and can use that practice to community stuff.

        Like, say they they go to sex parties. They get real good at talking to strangers in weird situations. They make new friends that are into sharing and cna be talked to about comunism. And they they can take their new sticky friends and their new found confidence to help form a mass line.