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?

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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    2 years ago

    "my vehicle existing as something small and sensible is seen as an offense [...] the mere existence of a Prius would send people into a rage"

    "I've seen countless wildlife areas around where I live that regularly get wrecked because people will drive into the middle of them with their pickup trucks and do donuts."

    "People picking up litter on the side of the road getting jeered at."

    "I've seen people deface signs advocating recycling"

    This is the end result of neurotic competitive western individualist ideology and culture contradicting the idea of there being a greater good. When god is slain and everything collapses down to an alienating, cynical, dog-eat-dog world, morality itself is reduced to a silly competition between individuals, nothing greater than this exists in the Zeitgeist.

    There are too many contradictions between one's life and any possible form of a "greater good" which is detached from the tsunami of a massive psychic paradigm shift spawned of not just resistance but a Jihad, greater than anyone, towards a better tomorrow, for all of humanity.

    And nobody has truly created a lasting alternative way of social organization which spawns this paradigm shift yet because neoliberalism defeated everything, muh material conditions destroyed any sort of challenge to the status quo so far.

    Therefore,

    "I think we all remember the recent driver who murdered people with his vehicle all because they had the nerve to hand out food to the less fortunate."

    Is the end result of this sick contradiction, because how fucking dare those failures get to receive any form of mercy in this world, only the strong survive to crush the weak.

    Open to discussion.

      • UlyssesT
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        17 days ago

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    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Your comment brought up some feelings that are hard to articulate. This might sound a little bazinga brained, but it's like we're all in a twisted simulation that some bored kid left running at high speed while he goes to the bathroom and we're in the end stages of all the parameters and rules breaking down

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I had a fever dream once in which I was woken up from the simulation and learned it was a rehabilitative prison for reactionaries to demonstrate the end result of reactionary ideologies and the hell that results. I got to leave and live a normal life on probation in an advanced communist world and then, in the cruelest twist, it all melted away and I was back in my bed shaking and delirious.

        I haven't been able to get that idea out of my head ever since, it just keeps growing and trying to elaborate on itself with further rationalizations. I don't believe it, of course, because it's far too hopeful and is dangerous on top of that, being fundamentally a dismissal of agency and responsibility (if we're all slowly-being-reformed monsters doomed to fail at doing anything good as a lesson in why it's bad when reactionaries win, then there's no reason to do anything but retreat into some mad hyper-purist devotion in the hopes of being judged as reformed, there's no consequences to anything apart from our continued suffering; taken seriously to its conclusions this is an absurdly nihilistic concept), but goddamn if it doesn't feel like things are actively being shaped to be as absurd and awful as possible for no point but to be absurd and awful.

          • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            I've actually been debating writing a short story building on the premise, with some shitposty title like "The Torment Nexus But It's Good, Actually."