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it’s going to be fascinating – and probably not in a good way – to watch our self-reinforcing western propaganda do battle with these intrinsic realities.
part of me is glad that i won’t be alive to see it.
i’ve been trying to ward off a familiar misanthropy related to being a part of the eurotrash. i remember being a young buck, overcome with depression and nihilism, thinking that all humans deserve to die because surely nothing else can fix the evil that men do. so in the past 20 years i’ve grown to consider this way of thinking as infantile.
but when i witness these irrelevant fucks in europe seeing the bullshit happening the US but still somehow believing that it couldn’t happen here, because of some nebulous “purity” inherent in our institutions or something, and i find myself being like damn, maybe it’s just the west and all its people and culture and institutions and memory of that truly does deserve to die.
but then i shake the doom and look at pictures of kittens with my partner and go out to see the sun and touch some grass.
someone else on lemmy gave me the realization that soft fascism is baked into western culture and no one is immune to propaganda, so we’re all always in danger of going off the far end.
oh yeah it absolutely seems so. but hope shouldn’t be denied for those who haven’t been even born yet, trees under which we’ll never sit and all that i guess, but very often i completely lose faith in everyone in this shithole of a peninsula – or at the least this swamp my fellows inhabit. oh well
same here and the thing that stings the most for me is the living proof of leftist progress right at our southern border. it directly refutes the neoliberal myths we keep feeding each other and keep us trapped under the control of the epstein oligarchy.
also there’s history: all of mexico’s reform attempts have been reversed by either the united states or europe before and i expect this time around to be no different since it’s currently already happening in the rest of latin america.
it makes me wish i’d learned gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” before bothering with any other piece of leftist literature – we western doomscrollers need that more than anything else rn.
it’s going to be fascinating – and probably not in a good way – to watch our self-reinforcing western propaganda do battle with these intrinsic realities.
part of me is glad that i won’t be alive to see it.
i’ve been trying to ward off a familiar misanthropy related to being a part of the eurotrash. i remember being a young buck, overcome with depression and nihilism, thinking that all humans deserve to die because surely nothing else can fix the evil that men do. so in the past 20 years i’ve grown to consider this way of thinking as infantile.
but when i witness these irrelevant fucks in europe seeing the bullshit happening the US but still somehow believing that it couldn’t happen here, because of some nebulous “purity” inherent in our institutions or something, and i find myself being like damn, maybe it’s just the west and all its people and culture and institutions and memory of that truly does deserve to die.
but then i shake the doom and look at pictures of kittens with my partner and go out to see the sun and touch some grass.
my version of touching grass are the community bottoms in my city and the rest of your comment sounds more like bio or eco-fascism than misanthropy.
hell yeah
and also yeah, i was in danger of going off the far end into fascism back in the day i think
someone else on lemmy gave me the realization that soft fascism is baked into western culture and no one is immune to propaganda, so we’re all always in danger of going off the far end.
oh yeah it absolutely seems so. but hope shouldn’t be denied for those who haven’t been even born yet, trees under which we’ll never sit and all that i guess, but very often i completely lose faith in everyone in this shithole of a peninsula – or at the least this swamp my fellows inhabit. oh well
same here and the thing that stings the most for me is the living proof of leftist progress right at our southern border. it directly refutes the neoliberal myths we keep feeding each other and keep us trapped under the control of the epstein oligarchy.
also there’s history: all of mexico’s reform attempts have been reversed by either the united states or europe before and i expect this time around to be no different since it’s currently already happening in the rest of latin america.
it makes me wish i’d learned gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” before bothering with any other piece of leftist literature – we western doomscrollers need that more than anything else rn.
We’re off the far end now. They invent enemy groups and assign undesirables to those groups.
is that somehow different than before?