When the standards of bourgeois society are utterly discredited. Often fascist movements have recognized this aspect more readily than much of the left. Attempting to build an anti-fascist movement by reinvigorating the social order that has been utterly discredited cedes anti-establishment ground to the ultra-right.
This is especially poignant in this era of No Future, where an entire generation (gen z and the one after) do not have any pretense that the bourgeois capitalist future - like, their own middle age and on - will have any chance of being better than today. And what's the biggesr live "left" push in decades? Electing Bernie and the Squad, or their equivalent in other countries like Corbyn, in order to preserve what little we have.
And then we have our own internal punishment/reinforcement in left online spaces where recognizing that this is likely where the average person is at is "the black pill." It's the black pill in the sense that, yes, the future will not be better than today and things are only going to get worse - but there is an escape hatch, I mean yeah Capital is doing Thelma and Louise and we're all in the car, but we just have to open the door to survive. Which could be painful maybe even deadly but... the fuck is the alternative???
I don't think that they will tbh. The trajectory of the human experience since the end of the Second World War (honestly probably even since the end of the First, really) has been an inexorable march towards social & ethical hyper-individualism & I don't see that really changing at all until it becomes impossible to survive physically in the absence of an actual robust community network. This means that most of us will just fuckin die, without achieving anything meaningful politically or socially. I suppose that's the nature of living at the bottom end of the social latter during "normal" times.
This is especially poignant in this era of No Future, where an entire generation (gen z and the one after) do not have any pretense that the bourgeois capitalist future - like, their own middle age and on - will have any chance of being better than today. And what's the biggesr live "left" push in decades? Electing Bernie and the Squad, or their equivalent in other countries like Corbyn, in order to preserve what little we have.
And then we have our own internal punishment/reinforcement in left online spaces where recognizing that this is likely where the average person is at is "the black pill." It's the black pill in the sense that, yes, the future will not be better than today and things are only going to get worse - but there is an escape hatch, I mean yeah Capital is doing Thelma and Louise and we're all in the car, but we just have to open the door to survive. Which could be painful maybe even deadly but... the fuck is the alternative???
I have hope the kids (gen z and alpha), by nature of their upbringing in this reality, will come up with something
I don't think that they will tbh. The trajectory of the human experience since the end of the Second World War (honestly probably even since the end of the First, really) has been an inexorable march towards social & ethical hyper-individualism & I don't see that really changing at all until it becomes impossible to survive physically in the absence of an actual robust community network. This means that most of us will just fuckin die, without achieving anything meaningful politically or socially. I suppose that's the nature of living at the bottom end of the social latter during "normal" times.
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