I mean hopefully it can be delayed by a year or two until I can get SRS and move to Seattle and integrate into some leftist networks. But we're all just stuck in this limbo of waiting for the evil empire to implode and it's still tottering along, smashing thousands of lives daily. I'm not romanticizing the Cool Zone, I'm just tired of being kept on the edge - waiting, waiting. Let's just get it the fuck over with

  • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I do think that there’s a kind of religiously fetishistic yearning for apocalypse that the modern left displays where we just want the damn nuclear and eugenistic wars to happen already, which i’m also guilty of, but on reflection I can’t not see it as romanticization, given the actual unimaginable horror and brutality that will inevitably be involved. People, far-left included, are not going to like it when society breaks apart.

    I truly don't think I'm romanticizing it. Maybe the aftermath in my most wild daydreams, but my viewpoint is a bit different. I view The Cool Zone as an inevitability. Nothing you or I or anyone else will do will change that. If that's the case, why wait? This slow grind down is torture

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If that’s the case, why wait

      I'd like to maximize the closest to bearable civilization part of my kid's childhood, and the same for my nephew. I have several other family members I love who might not survive "the cool zone" and I want them to have as long and fulfilling life as possible.

      I kind of have trouble understanding how it's baffling that just because our society is horrible and progressing toward more horror, people might prefer that the worst possible outcome not immediately happen?