Having to work during the apocalypse sucks

6 months ago by Thales to c/lemmyshitpost

So we’re all just working as normal while the world burns? Sure doesn’t feel right. (TikTok screencap)

Shellofbiomatter 34 points 6 months ago

Well yeah. Like what else am i supposed to do? Why people online always have this delusion of grandeur that they have any power to change world wide politics? We are all completely meaningless cogs in the machine.

I still need food, clothes, shelter, warmth. To get those i need to either do it all myself like back in mediveal times, which is rather time, energy consuming/inefficient and unstable or exchange it with universal currency.
To get universal i need to exchange my time and skills for it aka work.

I'm not someone special, i cant change the world, i cant even get the snowball effect starting. I, as a single individual am completely meaningless in world scale politics. Best i can do is just adapt to changing circumstances and surive, maybe even help a people close to me/within my sphere of influence.

So yeah, i keep working like normal.

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BennyTheExplorer 21 points 6 months ago

You can definitely change the world, have you ever heard of history? It's full of revolutions, the french revolution, the civil rights movement, the workers rights movement / unions. How do you think, we achieved this relatively good living standard in the last 50 years?

Shure, changing the world will be hard as fuck and it could be years until you see any positive change from your behaviour, maybe your actions will only bear fruit after you died.

But the only thing we can / we have to do is try.

And attitudes like yours are exactly what fascists are counting on.

If you don't want to do anything and just stick your head into the sand, I can't stop you, I guess, but stop pretending you didn't have a choice.

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OctopusNemeses 7 points 6 months ago

The difference in attitudes from a decade ago is 180 degrees backwards. Young people and academics are where revolutions begin or end. Those people have been demoralized and pacified.

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BennyTheExplorer 4 points 6 months ago

You can still be part of the change.

And also that is a gross overgeneralisation, it's not like schools were full of revolutionaries a decade ago, and today I definitely feel like more people are ready to do something, especially since Trump took office.

Just look at the success of Mamdani or the no Kings protests.

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Shellofbiomatter 1 point 6 months ago

This is the delusion im talking about. It's completely baffling to me how people can take something that has a 99,99% failure rate and assume they're the 0,01% and that's not limited to politics. People constantly do it with every single aspect of life.

You're using a survivorship bias and seeing only the ones that succeeded and ignoring all the ones that failed or didn't even get off the ground to be heard of.

I'm fairly sure not a single one of those were started by a single individual either. These were all started by groups of like minded individuals and I'm not even in a country where there are enough people to get started with any movement.

I'm not sticking my head in the sand. I'm just not delusional to assume there's a realistic possibility to affdct any change even if I'd were to dedicate rest of my life to it. I don't assume I'm special.

We're all just cogs in the machine. Yeah sure we can somewhat change in which part of the machine we are and have a cleaner conscious, but it will not stop the machine.

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Shanmugha 5 points 6 months ago

We can also somewhat break the undesired behaviour of the machine (be unreliable cogs). So yeah, a little freedom we have still

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Shanmugha 0 points 6 months ago

Shure, changing the world will be hard as fuck and it could be years until you see any positive change

No. For people without needed capability (read: 99.(9) of all people on the planet) changing the world means "you will most likely die trying, and it might amount to something, but may as well not". And building said capability is again close to a full lifetime of work, if not more

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BennyTheExplorer 2 points 6 months ago

I feel like, that's exactly what I said.

And that changes nothing, because we either try to change the world or give up.

And the world as it currently is is not acceptable to me, so I try to change it.

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