To live a miserable life as a nihilist, not knowing that there is an alternative future to capitalism that is bound to triumph over its rotting corpse.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Opposite for me. I stumbled into being a leftist after my first job out of confusion, but I felt more stable before. I was a child before, so I don't know which did what. I do remember feeling more comfortable as an American, like I had some kind of shared heritage and shared project with everyone around me, even if we'd fight over stuff.

    After getting into communism I've only been really sad about the state of the world and my probable fate of working for landlords and bosses completely up their own butts with entrepreneur mindset. I'm more comfortable with myself personally, but I tend to fall on the pessimistic side of world affairs.

    What's the one really good line from Disco Elysium? "He started to think Kras Mazov invented theory to spite him personally." That's how it is for me sometimes. I see reactionary tendencies everywhere, in normal everyday people. I see them chasing stupid business ideas or holding contempt for the homeless. I don't think I'm super moral or anything, but it's hard to ignore just how impacted everything is by capitalism

    • Parzivus [any]
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      3 years ago

      0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself sad. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov fucked him over personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.