large part of this is that people just stopped bothering to hide it.
social networks are like unions for morons who found out they are not alone and can now feel safe in numbers.
Look up the works of sociologist Alvin Toffler.
Back around 1970 he wrote “Future Shock.”
His premise was that the coming Digital Era would be a massive change from the Industrial Era. Many people couldn’t/wouldn’t want to adapt themselves to the new reality. They’d find themselves working harder and harder to maintain the illusion that society was still the same.
I feel like it’s not me, it’s the world that’s sick
We’re given everything we need and we commoditize it
We consume, we destroy, like we’re parasitic
Science tells us that it’s suicide, and still we commit - Sick Boi, Ren
Insane, overwhelmed, fatigued, afraid, and baffled by the stupidity. I presume some combination of those factors is why we have let things get this bad.
Don’t make it feel like you did this. We didn’t make it this bad.
The we is something I struggle with. I argue with myself that people voted in idiots who lie and push laws around for their agenda. However I feel in recent years it’s become transparent that it’s to the agenda of the rich.
Social media has made that propaganda and the little people like us have been pitted against one another.
I am tired and I do get frustrated at the amount of humans who think short term stupid. However I am trying to work on the we. Rather than we voted this I am thinking we can educate and we can be strong together.
It’s easy to be tired, beaten. The only way out of this is to fight and that’s by seeing who the enemy is. They are not scared to show who they are. People are just blind to see it. I think that American thing of the temporarily embarrassed millionaire is spot on.
Thank you for this response. The temporarily-embarrassed millionaire is absolutely the blinders on our working class. Stepping back before Trump ran for his second term – Politics felt like a solved game that people were refusing to think about for exactly that reason.
Most people can’t afford healthcare. Most people can’t afford childcare. Everyone wants more money. Why can’t we all get behind one random person that says “I’ll tax TF out of the top 0.1% and get us healthcare and food and raise your wages.”
The answer is that people don’t want to see themselves as helpless, even if to stand together and help ourselves. They feel less shame excusing their state as temporarily-embarrassed victims; and blame some secret conspiracy or invasion or what-not.
China and the ex Soviet Union are model societies 🤡
@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone …not insane, just different…we live on the faith that we are not the only one…
We live on faith that we are a community and the people we elected on our behalf will speak for us. They don’t. They speak for the parasites who pay them.
