I think it really is just a funny way to say "indoctrination". But maybe in the context of leftist discussion, indoctrination with a side of capitalist realism?
Like the difference nationalism and, uh, breathing air? Nationalism is largely a result of indoctrination; a teenage soldier can sprout nationalist soundbites but likely lacks any deep understanding of why they are even saying such things, meanwhile with breathing air even when its importance is not taught people still believes in it because of its objective material existence in the real world.
Yeah, I think it's capitalist realism in action at an individual level. An indoctrination that is not the result of explicit attempt to instill such value, but rather through a constant exposure of it in an environment where it is ever present to the point that one came to think those values as objective material reality when it is not. I think a good example is how people in general have come to accept capitalist wage system as a universal and integral part of humanity.
From my own observation people seems to view "societal collapse" as merely another form of economic depression instead of a total rearrangement of human society, a gigadepression basically.* Everyone lose all their jobs and all companies shut down at once with the following state of lawlessness is the result of everyone being unemployed and poor, until the situation calms down and new job creators: warlords, bandit kings, traders, etc; appear to give everyone society at a reduced form. In the old world you work in an office for a ten thousands of fiat money and go home to an apartment, in the new world you work as a scavenger for 10 pogs and 3 non-foil pokemon cards and go home to an overturned truck. People who does not return to this new pseudocapitalism are imagined as either psychopathic maniacs or savages who thinks that cartoon characters are gods.
That's a wild tangent, but my point is that "brainworm" are indoctrinated thought that have become so ingrained that they consider it to be a truth as inherent as "if you don't breath air you die". People views capitalist wage system as something inherent to humanity that it will return by itself even after it is destroyed. The person OP was talking to believes that Elon Musk and Space-X is the only path forward for the future of humanity, and that said future of humanity is absolutely interlinked with space without any other alternative.
*edit: One a side note I think this is one of the reason why most people doesn't have any sense of urgency about the climate collapse. I think I should expand on tangent somewhere else.
You're right about most people feeling like there's some vague general tug to always make society capitalist in some way. Most people see little difference between capitalism and feudalism. It's just like us except the rich person has a silly hat, right?
Yeah apocalypse itself isn't even as powerful as some innate drive to keep the same structures intact.
I think it really is just a funny way to say "indoctrination". But maybe in the context of leftist discussion, indoctrination with a side of capitalist realism?
Like the difference nationalism and, uh, breathing air? Nationalism is largely a result of indoctrination; a teenage soldier can sprout nationalist soundbites but likely lacks any deep understanding of why they are even saying such things, meanwhile with breathing air even when its importance is not taught people still believes in it because of its objective material existence in the real world.
Yeah, I think it's capitalist realism in action at an individual level. An indoctrination that is not the result of explicit attempt to instill such value, but rather through a constant exposure of it in an environment where it is ever present to the point that one came to think those values as objective material reality when it is not. I think a good example is how people in general have come to accept capitalist wage system as a universal and integral part of humanity.
From my own observation people seems to view "societal collapse" as merely another form of economic depression instead of a total rearrangement of human society, a gigadepression basically.* Everyone lose all their jobs and all companies shut down at once with the following state of lawlessness is the result of everyone being unemployed and poor, until the situation calms down and new job creators: warlords, bandit kings, traders, etc; appear to give everyone society at a reduced form. In the old world you work in an office for a ten thousands of fiat money and go home to an apartment, in the new world you work as a scavenger for 10 pogs and 3 non-foil pokemon cards and go home to an overturned truck. People who does not return to this new pseudocapitalism are imagined as either psychopathic maniacs or savages who thinks that cartoon characters are gods.
That's a wild tangent, but my point is that "brainworm" are indoctrinated thought that have become so ingrained that they consider it to be a truth as inherent as "if you don't breath air you die". People views capitalist wage system as something inherent to humanity that it will return by itself even after it is destroyed. The person OP was talking to believes that Elon Musk and Space-X is the only path forward for the future of humanity, and that said future of humanity is absolutely interlinked with space without any other alternative.
*edit: One a side note I think this is one of the reason why most people doesn't have any sense of urgency about the climate collapse. I think I should expand on tangent somewhere else.
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You're right about most people feeling like there's some vague general tug to always make society capitalist in some way. Most people see little difference between capitalism and feudalism. It's just like us except the rich person has a silly hat, right?
Yeah apocalypse itself isn't even as powerful as some innate drive to keep the same structures intact.