I saw a lib doctor I think write a medium post about how these fuckers aren't in a death cult because when they're in the hospital dying of covid they refuse to believe it. Like they'll insist they have lung cancer or something (because that's so much better)—anything except covid because they are the heroes of reality and bad things only happen to other people, not them. An anti-vaxx nurse my partner knows is currently dying of covid and one of the workers at the hospital said that the woman doesn't actually have covid—she's just on a ventilator and about to have the plug pulled on her and had collapsed in her house and was lying on the floor for four days in her own shit and piss and god knows what else because of stress. This medium post argues that if "these fuckers" (what else to call them?) were in a death cult, they would be completely embracing it and celebrating even their own deaths. But can any of us think of any group in history that was just like: "kill yourself and everyone around you?" (Aside from Matt.)
I think your analysis is spot-on here. All I would add is that these people aren't actually conscious of what they're doing. It's all angry baby id energy. They've been abused by their parents and peers and by capitalism itself their whole lives, even though in a lot of cases capitalism has actually made them materially rich and comfortable—though at the same time it transformed them, psychologically, into monsters. So I think it is a death cult, but that it's an unconscious one. It's boomer (or boomer-in-training) death drive.
Aside from a few Kamalas and Pete Buttigiegs here and there, these are the people ultimately running the country. They can't deal with forest fires, hurricanes, the pandemic, or much of anything. Literally everything is completely out of control and utterly beyond their comprehension. If you look at the Fox News home page right now, every other story there is about fucking Afghanistan. It makes me think that when an uprising, a revolution, finally really does get going here, these people are going to be completely swept aside a lot quicker than we might believe. Make no mistake, they have a shitload of weapons, but when you've been huffing lead gasoline all your life and unconsciously want to destroy yourself, that might not actually count for much.
I saw a lib doctor I think write a medium post about how these fuckers aren't in a death cult because when they're in the hospital dying of covid they refuse to believe it. Like they'll insist they have lung cancer or something (because that's so much better)—anything except covid because they are the heroes of reality and bad things only happen to other people, not them. An anti-vaxx nurse my partner knows is currently dying of covid and one of the workers at the hospital said that the woman doesn't actually have covid—she's just on a ventilator and about to have the plug pulled on her and had collapsed in her house and was lying on the floor for four days in her own shit and piss and god knows what else because of stress. This medium post argues that if "these fuckers" (what else to call them?) were in a death cult, they would be completely embracing it and celebrating even their own deaths. But can any of us think of any group in history that was just like: "kill yourself and everyone around you?" (Aside from Matt.)
I think your analysis is spot-on here. All I would add is that these people aren't actually conscious of what they're doing. It's all angry baby id energy. They've been abused by their parents and peers and by capitalism itself their whole lives, even though in a lot of cases capitalism has actually made them materially rich and comfortable—though at the same time it transformed them, psychologically, into monsters. So I think it is a death cult, but that it's an unconscious one. It's boomer (or boomer-in-training) death drive.
Aside from a few Kamalas and Pete Buttigiegs here and there, these are the people ultimately running the country. They can't deal with forest fires, hurricanes, the pandemic, or much of anything. Literally everything is completely out of control and utterly beyond their comprehension. If you look at the Fox News home page right now, every other story there is about fucking Afghanistan. It makes me think that when an uprising, a revolution, finally really does get going here, these people are going to be completely swept aside a lot quicker than we might believe. Make no mistake, they have a shitload of weapons, but when you've been huffing lead gasoline all your life and unconsciously want to destroy yourself, that might not actually count for much.
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