Also: Elite panic. If this book rehashes some obvious behaviors of parts of the population and ignores the murder committed by the capitalists and political elites who'd rather have profits than zero covid it isn't materialist.
I mean there's always going to huge amount of dumb opinions when literally anything is happening, what is important is having a society built on an ideology that can handle all that noise and make a plan.
Capitalism cannot do this lol and instead blames the failure on "human nature", which is partially true but only when living under a society that rewards and demands shitty actors to keep it running.
Folks, I regret to inform you the "capitalism is human nature" nerds are at it again.
Its human nature! (Please ignore this didn't happen at a wide scale in China or Vietnam)
It's just a broken society playing out to its natural conclusion, not an inherent flaw of humans.
our chances of successfully dealing with climate change are pretty much zero.
no dude, the thing that proved this wasn't the response to the pandemic, but the failure to prevent it.
The world couldn't coordinate and shut down for 2 weeks lmao. That's literally all it would've taken
Of course, this implies the virus is natural and didn't leak from Ft. Belvoir/Detrick
Wondering why society went off-kilter during the pandemic? It was all predicted in this book. :marx:
I think we’ve reached our limit as a species. At a time when people worldwide need to be coming together to face the climate crisis, we are more isolated than ever. I don’t expect it to get better
No, people have psychology like this in a late capitalist hellscape, which is the only sort of social psychology that gets done in the settler nations for the most part. It says little to nothing of what is innate to humans. This is just more of our society being fundamentally broken.
