I've seriously been thinking a lot on how, in modern day society,...
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Seriously, have you ever stopped to consider just how many things will send people into a state of rage these days? We all know cyclists and...

I saw this :reddit-logo: post and it got me thinking. Maybe it's the intense sleep deprivation, but I can't even muster the energy to be angry. I'm just sad. I know that individual choice is largely a psyop, but if at least a third of the populace actively wants things to be worse, how can we change things for the better? I know that there are many, many loving and wonderful and kind people all around this country. But as we're continually worked harder and harder and grow more and more impoverished, even the kindest souls will burn out. And what are we all up against? Not just the :porky-happy: elite, but the average swine whose main enjoyment in life is pissing off and upsetting anyone who wants things to be better. What can we even do against this?

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I gotta bring back class to this discussion. Bourgeois and petty bourgeois people are bored as fuck, lack direction, and their narcissist and violent ytendencies are sharpened constantly. There's nothing interesting for them to do except flexing the colonialist violence they inherited from their ancestors.

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Bourgeoisie and petty bourgeois people are bored as fuck, lack direction, and their narcissist and violent ytendencies are sharpened constantly. There’s nothing interesting for them to do except flexing the colonialist violence they inherited from their ancestors.

      This explains chan culture almost perfectly.