The problem is that people, individual people, don't all just spontaneously decide that "We've had enough of X!" and then go fuck shit up. They exist within communities which become subject to specific material & economic conditions, which they speak amongst themselves about, and then begin to collectively organize & deliberate among themselves what to do in response to those material conditions.
Americans cannot be moved into revolutionary or insurrectionist action because they (we), very deliberately lack any communitarian, or social character of any kind. No-one in real life talks about any of these things, and if they do they do so entirely within the context of whatever the glowing electric box in front of them tells them to say about it. I work in a car parts plant, our lunch-room is plastered wall-to-wall with tvs that are on a permanent tri-weekly rotation between CNN, Fox News, and ESPN. There is literally no way you can have a conversation during work hours about any of this shit without your own arguments getting drowned out by thought-terminating hog shit in real time.
Americans cannot be moved into revolutionary or insurrectionist action because they (we), very deliberately lack any communitarian, or social character of any kind. No-one in real life talks about any of these things, and if they do they do so entirely within the context of whatever the glowing electric box in front of them tells them to say about it.
They've really got things under wraps this time. I honestly have no idea how any of this could possibly ever change. There would have to be no TV or internet for months.
The problem is that people, individual people, don't all just spontaneously decide that "We've had enough of X!" and then go fuck shit up. They exist within communities which become subject to specific material & economic conditions, which they speak amongst themselves about, and then begin to collectively organize & deliberate among themselves what to do in response to those material conditions.
Americans cannot be moved into revolutionary or insurrectionist action because they (we), very deliberately lack any communitarian, or social character of any kind. No-one in real life talks about any of these things, and if they do they do so entirely within the context of whatever the glowing electric box in front of them tells them to say about it. I work in a car parts plant, our lunch-room is plastered wall-to-wall with tvs that are on a permanent tri-weekly rotation between CNN, Fox News, and ESPN. There is literally no way you can have a conversation during work hours about any of this shit without your own arguments getting drowned out by thought-terminating hog shit in real time.
They've really got things under wraps this time. I honestly have no idea how any of this could possibly ever change. There would have to be no TV or internet for months.