A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…
Can confirm that one of the things that drove me to the left was how it got harder and harder to believe in any sort of future. The processes and institutions I'd put my faith in weren't doing anything about climate change, weren't doing anything about ecological devastation, were making living and working conditions worse, and proved impotent at every turn against the rise of the far right. And in the framework of capitalist realism, if capitalism couldn't fix it, then we were on an inevitable doom spiral toward extinction.
Honestly, I think we probably still are, but knowing that a better world is possible and that you can work toward it is a small comfort, however unlikely you are to succeed.
Can confirm that one of the things that drove me to the left was how it got harder and harder to believe in any sort of future. The processes and institutions I'd put my faith in weren't doing anything about climate change, weren't doing anything about ecological devastation, were making living and working conditions worse, and proved impotent at every turn against the rise of the far right. And in the framework of capitalist realism, if capitalism couldn't fix it, then we were on an inevitable doom spiral toward extinction.
Honestly, I think we probably still are, but knowing that a better world is possible and that you can work toward it is a small comfort, however unlikely you are to succeed.
I'll second that. I have enough brain problems that I don't need a layer of doomerism painted over my dysfunctions.