https://twitter.com/ThoughtSlime/status/1627029198245359618
Twitter thread continued:
Sometimes people will say "You made me an anarchist" and like... buddy, I don't even think it matters that I myself am an anarchist.
And I regret that that sort of "we're fighting the good fight" mentality has allowed some of the worst grifters on the platform to flourish by manipulating people's passions for their own weird petty reasons.
I think what I do has a lot of value, I'm just saying that what I perceive that value to BE is a lot different than what I thought a few years ago.
I agree with that. There are things I otherwise wouldn't have known that I could have been comfortably dumb about. But a lot of Marxism is comforting because now I at least have the words and mental framework to explain the things I was already feeling and experiencing. I know people who are like me, but didn't learn Marxism, so instead they just assume the world is and will always suck and that humanity is bad. I'd rather be a depressed nerd than a nihilist or misanthrope.