- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse
- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse
Never forget a better world is possible...
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Left online communities will show you a billion examples of westerners being hopelessly brainwashed, and then say “a better world is possible.” Well I don’t really believe that after seeing how aggressively ignorant people are/can be. I don’t really know how anyone can believe it at this point.
Yes... I posted this not long after getting into it with someone about how covid could have been handled differently here in the West, how there is a shining example out East... But in the end no matter how many good points you make, they just refuse to believe it. All I'm left with saying and wondering is; "a better world is possible... So why the resistance?"
I'm deeply pessimistic about the future as well. A better world is certainly possible, if only people would stand up and take it.
Things just seem so out of our control now. The status quo seems too large, too powerful, too entrenched to effectively fight and overthrow. Climate change and the real threat of human extinction should be a massive opportunity for the global left. And you know, it remains to be seen.
But I think once a critical mass of people finally wake up to this shit, it will be too little too late. I think we have a few decades (at best) to rally the people and overthrow the ruling elite before runaway heating kills us all. And I just don’t see it happening in time. It’s now or never and not enough people give a shit, it seems.
Comrade, these are my feelings exactly. I guess my sentiment was just a reminder that we don't have to accept these things as they are, that we don't have to be gaslit into believing that this is just the natural order of things. Though I understand the resignation that our fellow humans just don't seem to / don't want to care.
I would say "organize!" but that would be hypocritical of me. But we all should. If not to say that we won the fight, but that we at least tried.
Maybe I’m just a bitter, negative person, but I think humanity will end up sacrificing everything for a few more decades of comfort/pleasure/commodities.
“The left” is in the unfortunate position of having to tell people that the party is over. That we need to drastically scale everything back. And that we can no longer live lavishly like past generations, otherwise we seal our doom.
Westerners are going to take this personally, claim the left are actually hypocrites for supporting what they will call “austerity”, and double down on their delusion. We’re going to tell them the hard truth, they will throw a temper tantrum, and end up embracing fascism.
I feel that the class struggle will finish in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Try talking about this stuff in person. Idk perhaps you are more intelligent, better spoken than I am, but when I tell people the problems we face as a species, they shrug their shoulders and say “what are ya gonna do?”
People by and large convince themselves that these problems are too big, too complex for them to take on as individuals. So they just give up, and accept that when then the end comes, that will be their time to go. Everyone I talk to about this stuff is blackpilled as fuck. And those are just the people who happen to believe in global warming. Others will just call you crazy/hysterical.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/millions-in-damage-after-attack-on-coastal-gaslink-work-site-rcmp-say-1.5786320
This is the toned down version by Billy Bragg, a UK lib.
I like the Alistair Hulett version better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtAfIjRKUak
