by achrilock
Lots of places throughout history and in the contemporary world deal with collective trauma as a simple fact of life. America is different, though. Here, it’s like we’re all on a reality show about collective, systemic trauma, and people sell advertising and merch. It’s totally preventable but we don’t prevent it because what happens in the overall plot doesn’t matter at all so long as the show keeps making money 😐
by achrilock
I believe that religious indoctrination centers (Christian madrasas) are harmful to the development of children and that they harm society by creating weak-minded, bigoted, psychologically unstable citizens. The Bible teaches us that it is the constitutional, God-given right of every trans person to have a reasonable number of tactical nuclear weapons for self defense. Don’t murder children.
by achrilock
The trouble with comparing Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series with our world is that, in our reality, the Forsaken are the nobility. Here they already won, already rule the world, and the Creator died a long time ago. The Blight is global and we all live there, and real heroes are always on the run from the Shadow and rarely know peace because the commoners obey the Trollocs and Myrddraal and believe it has always been so. There are dark forces, but they wear designer clothes, not hoodies.
by achrilock
At least with regard to the books, Ballad was to The Hunger Games trilogy what Rogue One was to the original Star Wars movies. The same, but at the same time on a whole other level of sophistication.
by achrilock
The truth is that there is an unspeakable sadness inside my heart that can never be assuaged, and no matter what happens eventually I will just die a hungry ghost. And the universe won’t even notice.
by achrilock
Like, just imagine if the global order, as it exists today, actually made it without mass casualty and ultimate collapse. What would that say about the absurdity of morality? About the universe itself, even? Pure mad god territory, and worse for the number of eager worshipers.
by achrilock
If any of these activists you see around online actually had a chance of bringing any justice to the world, you’d find them either silenced / heavily marginalized, in prison, or dead. The whole lefty community is a pressure-release valve and a social club. Capital lets it persist because it’s visible and therefore actually helps with narrative control. You know the system’s plans are in danger when people start vanishing from view. Fortunately, this whole thing’s headed to Hell either way, so…
by achrilock
See, now, if I’m lucky, all I have to do is wait a few years for what I just said to be obvious enough for the normies to see it right in front of their faces everywhere, and then it will be worth some social capital or money for a real person to say it, and the message will proliferate. No one listens to me, lol. Being ahead of the curve is a real drag, and it gets worse the longer I live, not better :/ Anyway, until then, I’ve video games, books, and coffee… while there’s still ready electricity and mass-market printing presses and coffee beans. *puts down end-of-world cardboard sign and tries to find a way to forget*
by achrilock
The only way this planet, and any future for your children, will be saved is if the capitalist system is permanently dismantled with haste. We must take every opportunity to systemically sabotage the capitalist structure and to marginalize and stigmatize the capitalist class, and this includes loyalty to and belief in state or multinational political systems as they currently exist. More importantly we must undermine the ideological framework that supports the psychology and behaviors that nurture it, and replace these with pro-social education and critical thinking. Our economies must be sustainable and focused on providing basic needs and a good quality of life, equally, for all. The dubious infinite growth paradigm must end. Rule by popularity contest, deception, and violent theft must end. The era of ‘protest’ or ‘demands’ is over. If your plan of action does not include practical results it is a waste of time and should be abandoned. There are moral, correct, beneficial, and sustainable ways of structuring human society and we need to transition to those now. Opinions are irrelevant. This all seems abstract to you, now, but soon it will be very real and it will touch everyone alive and some who are not yet born. Change now or witness the beginning of the end.
by achrilock
Leftist history: remember that time fascists or capitalists tried to deprive people of things or murder people and we kinda fought back but lost in the end and got marginalized by the mainstream for our trouble, some of us died but we survived to do it all again another day? Boy, that was really somethin’ wasn’t it? Feels great to be righteous. Who wants to sign up? Service guarantees engagement on socials. Action begins in the immediate but persistence is systemic. Think big and set goals. 🙂
by achrilock
Freedom isn’t real and neither is the left. What humans mean when they say freedom is ‘agency,’ the ability to do what you want (usually and more often need) to do without someone who outranks you socially stopping you from doing that for some self-serving reason. But, friends, if you get more than a handful of humans together, that’s just the way it works. In any human system, except the tiniest, most important decisions, most decisions that have consequences, are made by just a few people. The truth is, most of you are followers, always have been and always will be. Your lives are mostly dedicated to doing the bidding of people who outrank you, often against others like you, whether your masters deserve that obedience or not.
This is humanity’s curse, or its destiny, or whatever you want to call it. To move toward authoritarianism like a stone moves toward the ground, because people simply cannot be trusted when they are not instructed and watched. They will make the wrong choice, and if by some miracle an outlier makes the right one and takes a stand, the other humans are going to punish that one for doing that anyway, for making them look bad, or for interfering with their action, so your larger set of results is the same. And this compounds every generation. The people who are best at lying, the biggest sociopaths, are always going to rule over you like agrarian predators watching over their livestock. That’s what all large human societies are. It’s humans fighting over who controls the most sheep or cattle.
The left will never ‘win’ for this reason. Because it’s fighting against human nature itself. People don’t want autonomy or the ability to analyze things or make complex decisions for themselves. Most aren’t even capable of it. If this weren’t true there wouldn’t be any more Catholics left after the Protestant Reformation, or any conservatives after humanity invented schooling or books that weren’t written by conservatives. People want icons to smile down at them and tell them it’s all going to be alright and then to tell them what to do while pretending that isn’t what’s going on, be those icons cultural, religious, economic, or political. The only ‘freedom’ most people want is the freedom to gratify themselves in peace and to hide their mistakes so they can advance as far as they are able on the primate hierarchy, regardless of whether or not they are actually worthy of that place. People like feeling larger than what they are, and whoever makes them feel that way is going to rule.
And, to make matters worse, the left isn’t really fighting because it isn’t allowed to fight, and it knows that. If it did anything but make a nuisance of itself states all over the world would imprison or extrajudicially murder everyone left of Barack Obama. I mean, sure, there’s feminists with guns in bumfuck nowhere, but those guys always, always have their peripheral struggles snuffed out as soon as they aren’t useful to some power in the core. And all the martyrs in the lefty struggle in the core? Most of those aren’t fighters. They’re people who randomly put themselves in front of fascists or capitalists because some petty icon told them to, and got fucked up or murdered because they thought the other side was pretending and playing the same idiotic posturing game that they were. The Struggle™. But instead they got killed because they entered situations they weren’t ready for and the left makes out like it’s the Rebel Alliance fighting the Galactic Empire and these people are all fighter pilots who crashed trying to steal the plans for the Death Star. It’s nonsense. Weep for them? For beautiful, hopeless fools, maybe. I like fighters who actually do stuff and win sometimes.
I really am beginning to think that we should stop reaching for what humans aren’t capable of, and start working within what is obviously our eternal nature. To arrange ourselves hierarchically and to enforce that arrangement with violence. Don’t get me wrong, I hate it, if you tell me to go right I’ll go left until the heat death of the universe just to show you up about it, and then laugh in your face while I die, but I cannot deny what I see in the rest of human kind. I’m starting to think the problem isn’t government types or diversity or lack of diversity or capitalism or any of these surface symptoms of basic human psychology, but rather who is actually in charge of these systems. Democracy or dictatorship, capitalism or socialism, monarchy or mob rule, these are irrelevant terms because, when left to organic, unguided development, they all deteriorate into either manufactured consent or outright authoritarianism enforced with violence. And it’s always with the wrong goals in mind and with the wrong people in charge, because, regardless of system, humans choose their icons and their leaders via popularity contest, with a healthy dose of self-interested acquisition opportunism. Energy, validation, and sex, which you could argue is just a form of validation tied to genetic imperatives. The order of operations varies but that’s basically ALL human beings and systems, with exceptions being few and far between.
Maybe we should be focusing on how to choose, or how to create, better tyrants instead of trying to escape the inevitable truth that humans crave and will have tyrants, whether they are effective and worthy or not. Because, practically, that’s the only way I see the species surviving and thriving. Democracy is always a fleeting flash in the pan, soon extinguished by worse and worse tyrants and eventual destruction and systemic reboot, and anarchic societies are always exterminated by imperial ones. I don’t make the rules. Read history. You wanna break out of history, supposedly, but you disown or kill anybody who really thinks about it. You only want to ‘feel’ like you’re breaking out of history, which is the whole damned point, here.
By all means, keep tweeting owns at each other, and doxxing each other, and voting against each other in rigged elections, and devastating economies, and ruining each other, and running fluff pieces about important stuff and sensational pieces about shit that doesn’t matter at all, and destroying the environment, abandoning each other, fighting for what is essentially a sociopolitical cash shop vanity skin over the same broken social psychological structure. Because nothing’s gonna change. In a thousand years you’ll still be doing the same stupid shit, if anyone is still around, and procedurally weeding out, not the people actually harmful to you, but the people who get in the way of you fulfilling your imperatives to be stupid, selfish, self-aggrandizing monkey shits. Every generation of humans does nothing but select out the people who might actually elevate the whole, all while thinking they’re doing the lord’s work and that there will be no collective price to be paid by the species for such irrational behavior.
If it’s worth saying it fits in a tweet, right? Stupid motherfuckers.
by achrilock
Guess, since literally everyone is full of shit, we outta just give up and build a Starship Troopers fascist utopia everybody drink beer about it lol.
by achrilock
It’s like we’re living in Babylon 5 except there was no reconciliation or justice after the Clark administration, the opposition just pretended it didn’t happen for political convenience. Clark moved to Florida, the Psi Corps are just still cumming with glee whenever they hurt dissidents for any reason and the Shadows invaded Ukraine but it’s going on for years because the Vorlons are apparently pussies who are afraid to fight & who only care about space money. Don’t join the Rangers it’s shit.