Between pipelines getting jammed, the slow-motion general strike, protests everywhere all the time, Sheikh Jarrah, mass shootings every day, new covid strains in India, and just the general background noise of life getting worse and worse for almost everyone on the planet, it feels like someone tied a brick to the big "accelerate the contradictions" lever.
Anyone else felt this way lately?
Not necessarily worse for everyone on the planet… I felt this same sense of impending doom until my opinions on China changed and I started following more closely what’s going on there, which is mostly very positive stuff.
I used to get bummed thinking that revolution would never happen, but now I realize that the most important revolution already happened decades ago, and the product of that revolution is about to become the world’s number one economy.
So yes, things are getting crazier, especially in the US, but all is not lost. On a global level, we might start to see positive change happen more quickly than we realize.
The Bolshevik revolution was the starter motor. The end of the USSR wasn't the end of communism, it was the beginning of the next phase of revolution.
I think it'll turn out to be very comparable to the French revolution's impact on liberalism in the long run
This is the thought process that keeps me hopeful, and therefore sane rn.