thats because it is. pretty much every major and minor problem in modern society can be directly traced back to some obscenely rich cunt fucking things up for their own benefit. just pick a problem you or someone you know is having, literally any problem, and theres a whole squad of evil ass rich people who made it happen, or made it way way worse than it needed to be. sometimes its subtle and sometimes its so blatant an idiot couldn’t miss it, but the connection is always there. its so depressing sometimes because theres so many people who stubbornly refuse to believe it, even intelligent highly educated people.
its so depressing sometimes because theres so many people who stubbornly refuse to believe it, even intelligent highly educated people.
Also frustrating when people respond with “well communism is worse!” I’m like that just skipped several important steps. If we can agree that the current system is Bad, then we can work towards a solution. But just refusing to engage and going full what-about is useless
If we can agree that the current system is Bad, then we can work towards a solution.
ehh, just that things are bad does not mean that they can be made better. consider natural disasters, even if you can evacuate the population before the flood, houses will still be destroyed. you can only mitigate it, not completely solve it. same is for the modern age, i guess. work still had to be done, work sucks -> things suck somehow.
I don’t think natural disasters are a great metaphor. I mean, even as you say you can do some stuff to mitigate flooding.
Often, in the scenario I was describing, it feels like they just accept the flood as inevitable and don’t want to do anything. Build no walls. Dig no drainage. No evacuation. Someone wants to build a dam, and they’re just like “walls?? Like a prison??”
Natural disasters are fine as a metaphor once you realize that we never left the jungle. Other people might be friendly or they might be tigers waiting for you to turn your back before they pounce.
Every utopian makes the same mistake: they see the sleight of hand we call technology and think that makes us different from the warriors who would bash each other’s brains out with clubs, steal all the women, and burn down the village. We’re not. We’re the same damn upright-walking, (mostly) hairless primates we’ve been for the past 300,000 years.
That shit didn’t happen in Australia. There’s very little record of precolonial warfare, especially on the scale you describe. Australian Aboriginal people had an assembly of nations that kept the peace through advanced political mechanisms. Capitalist society is simply far more primitive than Aboriginal hunter gatherer society.
Sure, hunter gatherer societies the world over tended to be more peaceful because they weren’t tied down to defending a piece of land and the food they worked so hard to grow.
The beauty of being a hunter gatherer is that when you get into conflict over a resource, you can just move to another area. Populations tend to stay low as everyone spreads out and develops large territories.
The hard part is figuring out how to get along after the agricultural revolution when people are living in cities, specialized into different roles, with larger populations (way above Dunbar’s number) forced to live in close proximity.
well if microsoft hadnt been the piece of shit company it was with its half assed bloated buggy inconsistent software for the past 30 years it might not be happening no. theres a reason its taken so long to have reliable windows api emulation on linux and a lot of it is microsoft being an anticonsumer capitalist shithole. like i said the connections are sometimes subtle, but theyre always there. we’ve just been living in this soul crushing system so long people cant see the forest for the trees.
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thats because it is. pretty much every major and minor problem in modern society can be directly traced back to some obscenely rich cunt fucking things up for their own benefit. just pick a problem you or someone you know is having, literally any problem, and theres a whole squad of evil ass rich people who made it happen, or made it way way worse than it needed to be. sometimes its subtle and sometimes its so blatant an idiot couldn’t miss it, but the connection is always there. its so depressing sometimes because theres so many people who stubbornly refuse to believe it, even intelligent highly educated people.
Also frustrating when people respond with “well communism is worse!” I’m like that just skipped several important steps. If we can agree that the current system is Bad, then we can work towards a solution. But just refusing to engage and going full what-about is useless
ehh, just that things are bad does not mean that they can be made better. consider natural disasters, even if you can evacuate the population before the flood, houses will still be destroyed. you can only mitigate it, not completely solve it. same is for the modern age, i guess. work still had to be done, work sucks -> things suck somehow.
I don’t think natural disasters are a great metaphor. I mean, even as you say you can do some stuff to mitigate flooding.
Often, in the scenario I was describing, it feels like they just accept the flood as inevitable and don’t want to do anything. Build no walls. Dig no drainage. No evacuation. Someone wants to build a dam, and they’re just like “walls?? Like a prison??”
Natural disasters are fine as a metaphor once you realize that we never left the jungle. Other people might be friendly or they might be tigers waiting for you to turn your back before they pounce.
Every utopian makes the same mistake: they see the sleight of hand we call technology and think that makes us different from the warriors who would bash each other’s brains out with clubs, steal all the women, and burn down the village. We’re not. We’re the same damn upright-walking, (mostly) hairless primates we’ve been for the past 300,000 years.
That shit didn’t happen in Australia. There’s very little record of precolonial warfare, especially on the scale you describe. Australian Aboriginal people had an assembly of nations that kept the peace through advanced political mechanisms. Capitalist society is simply far more primitive than Aboriginal hunter gatherer society.
Sure, hunter gatherer societies the world over tended to be more peaceful because they weren’t tied down to defending a piece of land and the food they worked so hard to grow.
The beauty of being a hunter gatherer is that when you get into conflict over a resource, you can just move to another area. Populations tend to stay low as everyone spreads out and develops large territories.
The hard part is figuring out how to get along after the agricultural revolution when people are living in cities, specialized into different roles, with larger populations (way above Dunbar’s number) forced to live in close proximity.
Every time I see a post or comment by you, i’m like “wow, she’s so based”. I couldn’t have said it better myself :3
Well, how can you trace back to capitalism the fact that lately it’s so hot- oh wait a minute…
I’m having trouble running Outer Wilds through the mod manager because it’s getting the steam install path wrong on linux.
But if it weren’t for capitalism, Linux would be more popular and the mods would work easier.
well if microsoft hadnt been the piece of shit company it was with its half assed bloated buggy inconsistent software for the past 30 years it might not be happening no. theres a reason its taken so long to have reliable windows api emulation on linux and a lot of it is microsoft being an anticonsumer capitalist shithole. like i said the connections are sometimes subtle, but theyre always there. we’ve just been living in this soul crushing system so long people cant see the forest for the trees.