Zelensky’s grandfather was a Soviet man, who fought Nazis during WWII...And, now Zelensky wears a t-shirt demeaning USSR and gives medals to Nazis...😕 pic.twitter.com/3DGFiOiFvG— Vera Van Horne (@VeraVanHorne) October 13, 2022
I started reading Graeber's The Dawn of Everything, by which I mean over the last month I've read the first two chapters. But in those chapters the authors just completely destroy the version of the Enlightenment I remember being taught in high school (which was something like "some philosophers came up with some good ideas, so good in fact that people threw off the yolks of feudalism and religion and instead turned to liberal democratic freedoms and rationality.")
voters voting
In talking to libs I know, this seems to be the stumbling block in all political conversations. "Well, I get to vote so I'm free." But, like, you get to vote for a guy wearing a red tie or a blue tie or maybe even a green or a yellow tie and then... corporations write the laws and pay those politicians to pass those laws and what you want or need doesn't matter. Maybe it's a little uncharitable, but sometimes I think they know that, but don't know what to do because revolution seems impossible or unacceptable, and so they must handwave it away to themselves with a "they'll fix that someday."
I started reading Graeber's The Dawn of Everything, by which I mean over the last month I've read the first two chapters. But in those chapters the authors just completely destroy the version of the Enlightenment I remember being taught in high school (which was something like "some philosophers came up with some good ideas, so good in fact that people threw off the yolks of feudalism and religion and instead turned to liberal democratic freedoms and rationality.")
In talking to libs I know, this seems to be the stumbling block in all political conversations. "Well, I get to vote so I'm free." But, like, you get to vote for a guy wearing a red tie or a blue tie or maybe even a green or a yellow tie and then... corporations write the laws and pay those politicians to pass those laws and what you want or need doesn't matter. Maybe it's a little uncharitable, but sometimes I think they know that, but don't know what to do because revolution seems impossible or unacceptable, and so they must handwave it away to themselves with a "they'll fix that someday."