People will seriously utter whatever garbage comes to mind in order to avoid questioning/changing the world for the better. I have developed a visceral hatred for thought terminating cliches.
"B-b-b-but hierarchy! Someone's gotta be in charge! There will always be people who are better off and worse off. That's why some people have to drop out of school in 7th grade and work for the rest of their lives in 90 degrees plus heat picking fruit and living in deprivation until they die a premature death :) It's the natural order!"
People who argue that line inevitably fall back on essentially "capitalism is eternal and just a natural partof human civilization"... they have to, there's no other way to defend that position without being completely ahistorical
"It'S hUMaN NAtuRe"
People will seriously utter whatever garbage comes to mind in order to avoid questioning/changing the world for the better. I have developed a visceral hatred for thought terminating cliches.
Capitalism is human nature. I don't know why it only emerged a few hundred years ago.
"B-b-b-but hierarchy! Someone's gotta be in charge! There will always be people who are better off and worse off. That's why some people have to drop out of school in 7th grade and work for the rest of their lives in 90 degrees plus heat picking fruit and living in deprivation until they die a premature death :) It's the natural order!"
People who argue that line inevitably fall back on essentially "capitalism is eternal and just a natural partof human civilization"... they have to, there's no other way to defend that position without being completely ahistorical