Yeah, but they can create the conditions where altruism is a non beneficial trait that ultimately leads to your untimely end.
Then I will end, with the world in a better place than when I began.
The goal isn’t for them to personally intervene in people’s lives, just to create the conditions that are most desirable to maintain their own position.
And in doing so they render themselves utterly powerless to stop people like me from doing good.
That’s why they’ve spent decades attacking the kindness of the working class. Turning the idea of charity into an insult, Christianity into prosperity Gospel, and being neighborly into an immigrant sympathizer. They want the lower class to idolize the same kind of disregard for empathy that made them rich to begin with.
You’re dead on about that. However, I also think this creates prime conditions for people who never had any intention of being good people to say “gee now I can’t be a good person, how terrible!” Well fuck that, I’m gonna do it anyway and laugh at the ultrarich who think their money and influence can accomplish anything they wish.
Yeah, it’s hard as fuck to go on when so many things are coming from so many directions, at so many levels, telling me to just fuck off and die. Student financial aid cuts, DEI cuts, degree program cuts, new laws against trans people activities, higher costs of living across the board, daily news of violence and unrest either started or supported by my government… the list just goes on and on. But you know what? I woke up today, and I’m gonna make it their fucking problem until I don’t.
Yep, all you can do is your best. Just keep one foot in front of the other and you’ll eventually end up old and tired, but hopefully content and with a mostly clear conscience.
Things have always been more fucked up than the general public likes to acknowledge, but I do admit that I really feel for younger people. I’m middle aged and have seen a lot in my time, but it does seem like the kids are going to have an even tougher go at it than I did, which is saying a lot. At least I got to see the analog world, before the towers fell and America cranked the crazy to 11, a time before the end of history.
Then I will end, with the world in a better place than when I began.
And in doing so they render themselves utterly powerless to stop people like me from doing good.
You’re dead on about that. However, I also think this creates prime conditions for people who never had any intention of being good people to say “gee now I can’t be a good person, how terrible!” Well fuck that, I’m gonna do it anyway and laugh at the ultrarich who think their money and influence can accomplish anything they wish.
I feel the same way, it’s just an uphill battle that seems to be getting harder by the decade.
Yeah, it’s hard as fuck to go on when so many things are coming from so many directions, at so many levels, telling me to just fuck off and die. Student financial aid cuts, DEI cuts, degree program cuts, new laws against trans people activities, higher costs of living across the board, daily news of violence and unrest either started or supported by my government… the list just goes on and on. But you know what? I woke up today, and I’m gonna make it their fucking problem until I don’t.
Yep, all you can do is your best. Just keep one foot in front of the other and you’ll eventually end up old and tired, but hopefully content and with a mostly clear conscience.
Things have always been more fucked up than the general public likes to acknowledge, but I do admit that I really feel for younger people. I’m middle aged and have seen a lot in my time, but it does seem like the kids are going to have an even tougher go at it than I did, which is saying a lot. At least I got to see the analog world, before the towers fell and America cranked the crazy to 11, a time before the end of history.