Who? Who is "we?" If you're in a hunter-gatherer tribe and everyone has enough to eat and there's a surplus and everyone can rely on everyone else and there's zero alienation, that sounds a lot better than making six figures hitting a keyboard and returning to a sterile apartment to watch anime
The internet is a tool that could easily be used to supplement learning and work the way they pretend it does. Instead it's just used to sell products and hyper normalize the spectacle.
There are so many things that exist that you can see the ghost of socialism in. Things that were meant to be used in a mode of social production that the early scientific socialists saw so clearly. The world we live in now is a stillborn husk.
These comparisons are always nonsense
"We've never been richer"
Who? Who is "we?" If you're in a hunter-gatherer tribe and everyone has enough to eat and there's a surplus and everyone can rely on everyone else and there's zero alienation, that sounds a lot better than making six figures hitting a keyboard and returning to a sterile apartment to watch anime
"More advanced"
Who the fuck cares?
"More powerful"
Liberal idealist nonsense
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No don't you get it, having a smartphone is actually way better than being able to buy a house and raise a family with just a high school diploma
i mean, you have the entirety of the knowledge amassed by humans at your fingertips lol
30 years ago you had to go to the library and use an encyclopedia to learn about random stuff
Nothing wrong with smartphones as a concept and many of the things you can do with them are both incredibly rad and incredibly useful
I'm trying to imagine a world where they would be made solely with public good in mind :sadness:
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The internet is a tool that could easily be used to supplement learning and work the way they pretend it does. Instead it's just used to sell products and hyper normalize the spectacle.
There are so many things that exist that you can see the ghost of socialism in. Things that were meant to be used in a mode of social production that the early scientific socialists saw so clearly. The world we live in now is a stillborn husk.
That isn't a good thing
All these western liberal humanist bullshit made a lot more sense if you replace any talk about "modern humanity" with "empire".
"Never before in our empire's glorious history have we been richer, more advanced, or powerful"
This is that fucking Microsoft ad with Common
literally worse than every other ad in existence. worse than that one dancing cartoon people commercial.
This could describe a lot of ads.
But I am 100% you are talking about that fucking GrubHub ad and I hate it
i mean use the context for what comes after it? "so why can"t we solve climate change" like, it makes sense because of what follows
So it's just setting up a false premise for the argument
Example: "Black people were freed in 1865, why don't they just... do better?"
The premise itself is empty of real context
no? for example your example would then go into jim crow, racism, institutionalized racism, etc... like the video does lol
the premise makes sense lol, we have more ability than ever to tackle issues, so why don't we
Your premise here is "black people were freed in 1865" which is true, not false. This comparison makes no sense.