The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of anarchism fascism.
It's what happens when all you know is liberalism, and then you try and create an alternative political ideology which (usually unknowingly) uses the same building blocks as liberalism hoping that you'll find The One True Ideology To Overthrow Capitalism, but then - oh no - at the end of the process, you just have a slightly different form of liberalism. We should solve climate change by... purchasing - from the capitalists who are causing climate change - devices for our homes that have "organic" or "sustainable" or "net-zero" or whatever on the label. We should solve alienation by... rejecting the "weak" (which, by my classification, makes up most of society!) and only connecting with those who are also passionate and fiery and want things to change.
In essence: we must solve and overcome capitalism and liberalism's actual real-world manifestation, warts and all, by buying into the pleasant myths of capitalism and liberalism and bring those myths into reality. It's just that simple! No more crony capitalism - just idyllic free-market competition! And to accomplish this, we have to use the same philosophies and ideas that went on to create that crony capitalism. The problems are bad, but the causes are good! I feel like most capital-L Liberals have a viewpoint that can be summarized as "I was taught the propaganda about the system we live under in school, but now that I'm an adult, I see that the reality of the system is very different. The only solution is to make the propaganda real, and we do that by [insert flawed method here]." The most sheltered/delusional Liberals - usually the ones that want to achieve some level of political/economic office or power - instead think "Actually, the propaganda is real!"
You see the above Nietzchean bullshit so many times in manifestos by mass shooters and other "radicals" that it's just rather boring at this point. Oh, yet another alienated 20-40 year old white guy who believes that we have to rise up and act like hyperindividualist passionate revolutionaries to overthrow the weak woke/feminist/Jewish/Islamic/Chinese/etc capitalist regime that we all willingly tolerate and live under like emaciated brainwashed sheep? Wow, what's next, are you gonna say that all authority is inherently tyrannical but single out those "dictators" that the US State Department specifically hates? I can't wait to hear your opinion on cryptocurrency.
There are some (initially) uncomfortable truths in Marxism that liberals either have to digest or reject, but it provably produces an ideology which has generated revolutions against liberalism and capitalism, around the world and in many different situations.
I forget the quote and who said it, but there's a line out there about how merely declaring that you or your comrades are now free in a revolutionary way is totally meaningless, i.e "acting revolutionary-ly" - the material conditions must be changed in order for you to achieve actual freedom.
It's what happens when all you know is liberalism, and then you try and create an alternative political ideology which (usually unknowingly) uses the same building blocks as liberalism hoping that you'll find The One True Ideology To Overthrow Capitalism, but then - oh no - at the end of the process, you just have a slightly different form of liberalism. We should solve climate change by... purchasing - from the capitalists who are causing climate change - devices for our homes that have "organic" or "sustainable" or "net-zero" or whatever on the label. We should solve alienation by... rejecting the "weak" (which, by my classification, makes up most of society!) and only connecting with those who are also passionate and fiery and want things to change.
In essence: we must solve and overcome capitalism and liberalism's actual real-world manifestation, warts and all, by buying into the pleasant myths of capitalism and liberalism and bring those myths into reality. It's just that simple! No more crony capitalism - just idyllic free-market competition! And to accomplish this, we have to use the same philosophies and ideas that went on to create that crony capitalism. The problems are bad, but the causes are good! I feel like most capital-L Liberals have a viewpoint that can be summarized as "I was taught the propaganda about the system we live under in school, but now that I'm an adult, I see that the reality of the system is very different. The only solution is to make the propaganda real, and we do that by [insert flawed method here]." The most sheltered/delusional Liberals - usually the ones that want to achieve some level of political/economic office or power - instead think "Actually, the propaganda is real!"
You see the above Nietzchean bullshit so many times in manifestos by mass shooters and other "radicals" that it's just rather boring at this point. Oh, yet another alienated 20-40 year old white guy who believes that we have to rise up and act like hyperindividualist passionate revolutionaries to overthrow the weak woke/feminist/Jewish/Islamic/Chinese/etc capitalist regime that we all willingly tolerate and live under like emaciated brainwashed sheep? Wow, what's next, are you gonna say that all authority is inherently tyrannical but single out those "dictators" that the US State Department specifically hates? I can't wait to hear your opinion on cryptocurrency.
There are some (initially) uncomfortable truths in Marxism that liberals either have to digest or reject, but it provably produces an ideology which has generated revolutions against liberalism and capitalism, around the world and in many different situations.
I forget the quote and who said it, but there's a line out there about how merely declaring that you or your comrades are now free in a revolutionary way is totally meaningless, i.e "acting revolutionary-ly" - the material conditions must be changed in order for you to achieve actual freedom.