If "false consciousness" was in the dictionary, this would be the example image
Because it's a sin.
That's literally it. They equate it with sin. The sin of sloth. Not that they think in those terms (filthy Protestant heretics, the lot of them) but it's taboo because they think of it as stealing, because they don't see the whole picture, because it's been deliberately obscured from them their entire lives. If they were to understand just how much was being stolen from them every time they go to work, they'd know who to direct their anger at.
Being poor, needing welfare etc. has been characterized as a moral failing, so people think this way.
"Why would I need welfare? I am NOT lazy, I am a GOOD person."
it actually makes me kind of sad
how do you become so dead that you reject the basic human urge to help other people, to let people help you?
It'll only lead to a sad, lonely life.
how do you become so dead that you reject the basic human urge to help other people, to let people help you?
Individualism has made people think that it's part of human nature to not help eachother but rather only yourself. It's depressing how cynical my society has become.
every "rugged individualist" should be left to starve to death in the woods, just like they would have 20,000 years ago all on their own.
Right? I've been on disability for a decade. I will take literally whatever anyone offers me. Like, someone tells me "hey, you ever need anything, let me know" to be nice or whatever; well, they're getting hit up, cuz I need shit.
It's hard not to fail when you keep being systematically murdered by the state using the wealth of imperial exploitation
The american left are too busy being class reductionist, patsoc, and whitewashing pieces of crap to be of any use.
Its going to be a long road to revival.
I am xx years old and I do [insert shitty job here] and I very much enjoy this song
It is a good song and I like it
I am not a bot
This just makes me sad, 100 years ago, they'd all be communists, but their brains have been fried by lead (Reagan), the pathology of the American Constitution held as a religion, and the most reactionary media in history.
those commenters are certainly mostly dipshits who blame the government instead of capitalism(which owns the government)
also nobody loves to tell their shitty sad life stories more than white people. when i get in an uber i pray to jeebus they arent an old white man who wants to ask me questions. shut the fuck up and drive.
