https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1413545742023659524?s=19

Ioffe sucks but these are great excerpts.

  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    That's what hero worship culture does to a mother fucker. Our entire culture is built around a sociopathic self-obsessive lens for perceiving the world. We attribute causes to individuals, not systems, and then due to availability bias, massively inflate our own experiences' importance because it's what we use to play adlibs for the hero story we're maintaining in our own heads that we pass off as a "self-identity." But it's just fiction, pure idealism, untethered from material analysis or systemic critique. I'd pity them as wretches were their actions not complicit in incalculable human suffering caused by the maintenence of global capitalism and imperialism.* They're worse than wretches, they're class-traitor goons chasing an ego bump and approval from their bosses/capitalist owners at the expense of millions. Then THEY have the audacity to feel let down by the system. Insulting, tbh.

    *(inb4 THOSE ARE THE SAME THING, LIB)

    Sorry for the word vomit, this just really struck a fucking nerve and I needed to let off some venom.