I'm dooming again

4 years ago by TeezyZeezy to c/comradeship

It seems like nobody is willing here in the US to actually throw themselves into a revolt or meaningful change because our conditions are just good enough.

I still see everyone around me going for the best social status, the best job, the best car, the biggest house, and completely ignoring all the major flashing red lights.

I feel like a crazy person, like one of those people that's missing the point. I feel surrounded by lunatics and typically that means you're the crazy one but I just know I can't be in this situation, it makes no sense.

Why is it like this? Why do I feel surrounded by NPCs? I can't connect to pretty much anyone here. It all seems so trivial.

I don't want to sound elitist or anything I just can't see how people still don't see the full picture

What to do?

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TheAnonymouseJoker 2 points 4 years ago

My visual picture of it is that Americans have eternally been conditioned to "capitalise" on everything possible, and since USA is reaching its final conclusion in the chapter of superimperialist capitalism, people are probably subconsciously thinking of it as capitalising off of the remains of their country as it collapses away. Seems to me like a perfectly fitting end to the last bastion of Anglo empire.

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ComradeSalad 1 point 4 years ago

That last sentence does seem cathartic in a sense, but only until you realize that if that occurs, the ones who will suffer are the millions of workers, parents, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbors, and the countless other regular people who all lead lives just as valuable as everyone else's. What will happen to those people in the collapse? Yes, if they are right wing or neo-liberal it can be easy to handwave them away as "justified" loses. But what about the rest? The one's doing the capitalizing will simply pack up their bags or call it a day, far removed from the suffering they have caused.

It is a very saddening train of thought.

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TheAnonymouseJoker 2 points 4 years ago

It sounds mean, until you realise these people enable US government only to enjoy their rich lives thanks to the overseas profit-generating genocides and foreign regime changes, never commit revolution against their state, conveniently screamed the past year how Russians should have overthrown Putin and his party so NATO could balkanise Russia, and demonise China everyday when after centuries they finally get to enjoy better quality life in the past few decades.

This does not stop with Russia, China and war machinery business. They see outside of Europe (now they are even exploiting Europe) and themselves, rest of the countries and continents as cattle meant to serve them either as slave pets or as beef. Now, one could say, it is the state, but it comes back to proletariat committing revolution, instead of which they chose to enjoy American/white privilege.

Until 2008 crisis, and even after that, they loved their privileged environment gained by all the exploitation and genocide, and you can even see this in the form of nostalgia they sell the world in the form of "oh before 2008/09 it was all bliss and merry, wish those times were back".

The ones who lose, only have themselves to blame, for they could have chosen to forgo the comfort of genocide-derived privileges, and committed revolution against the state. It was a matter of picking the greater, longer good but they chose to pick the shorter happiness, because USA apparently in their heads was an infallible Goliath.

To add a little, I value more the importance of 5+ billions of lives over 0.35 billion lives.

Edit: I think I missed something important. Not every average common person is a deranged Twitter liberal, however, it does not excuse them of being revolutionary. They choose to be, and openly admit being passive in drawing room discussions. If they had an excuse of being vulnerable from state actors due to having family/children, well now they and/or their children will face the consequences of their inaction.

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