No talking on the quiet carriage. No boom box on the subway. No conversation in the queue.
Is this capitalist isolation or is this western “decorum” or what? Why do I have to shake off the instinct to cringe when I hear someone playing music through their phone speakers? Why do I worry if anyone can hear my music through my headphones? What the fuck is this pathetic silence masquerading as a “culture”
I agree with you. I think this is more of a critical theory topic than a general leftist shit posting one.
The spectrum of the American left is very wide and very much affected by capitalism's oppressive forces. Folks responding to you can't fathom how the profit motive affects human behavior and interactions to the point people are generally antisocial.
I don't know what humans would behave like without the profit motive, I don't know how long it would take to "de-program" either. It could take generations, it could take a single one.