So, you know how liberals define themselves by being to the left of conservatives and calling it a day? I feel like, not all, but a lot of us leftists still do the same thing, but for libs. A lot of us haven't figured out that if change is actually going to happen, it's going to require changing our expectations of what our lives are going to be. It's not enough to just replace liberal aesthetics with leftist aesthetics, we have to start thinking about who we want to be as leftists and the life that person would live in the world outside of the lies. Some of us still have the same damn dreams we had for ourselves back when we were libs, we've just replaced the liberal world they're supposed to occur in with one in which there's more Lenin statues scattered around. This has been demonstrated most succinctly, I think, with how many leftists hopped on the "back to normal" train; Abandoning our immunocompromised comrades to bear the stigma of masking on their own, while also ignoring the harm we're going to let Covid do to ourselves. Zero Covid is just as much class struggle as fighting for worker rights. Someone who's not willing to do even the bare minimum of changing their lifestyle to prolong it, let alone help others, surely isn't about to contribute to a revolution.
Of course, that leads us to the other problem, The Cultural Hegemony and how its maintained through manufactured consent. Which is a whole other rant. Thanks for coming to my RED Talk.
If we do imagine and implement that alternative, there's going to be a lot of work to do to clean up climate change. Unless something better comes along, probably a lot of planting forests, cutting them down, and storing the lumber underground. Maybe we'll get a better carbon capture than that someday, but all the "high tech" alternatives thus far are just public money being laundered to someone.
Keep in mind I'm including myself in this crit.
So, you know how liberals define themselves by being to the left of conservatives and calling it a day? I feel like, not all, but a lot of us leftists still do the same thing, but for libs. A lot of us haven't figured out that if change is actually going to happen, it's going to require changing our expectations of what our lives are going to be. It's not enough to just replace liberal aesthetics with leftist aesthetics, we have to start thinking about who we want to be as leftists and the life that person would live in the world outside of the lies. Some of us still have the same damn dreams we had for ourselves back when we were libs, we've just replaced the liberal world they're supposed to occur in with one in which there's more Lenin statues scattered around. This has been demonstrated most succinctly, I think, with how many leftists hopped on the "back to normal" train; Abandoning our immunocompromised comrades to bear the stigma of masking on their own, while also ignoring the harm we're going to let Covid do to ourselves. Zero Covid is just as much class struggle as fighting for worker rights. Someone who's not willing to do even the bare minimum of changing their lifestyle to prolong it, let alone help others, surely isn't about to contribute to a revolution.
Of course, that leads us to the other problem, The Cultural Hegemony and how its maintained through manufactured consent. Which is a whole other rant. Thanks for coming to my RED Talk.
If we do imagine and implement that alternative, there's going to be a lot of work to do to clean up climate change. Unless something better comes along, probably a lot of planting forests, cutting them down, and storing the lumber underground. Maybe we'll get a better carbon capture than that someday, but all the "high tech" alternatives thus far are just public money being laundered to someone.