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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How closed minded they must be, to think everyone shares the exact same despair they do, as well as the inability or lack of creativity needed to envision a better future and a path that takes us there.

Lets do a test. Could you imagine supporting:

  1. Banning of commercial advertising
  2. Abolishing patents or making them free or extremely low cost to use to quickly adopt new / better technology
  3. Nationalize all big news and social media companies and turning them over to the democratic control of their own workers (a cooperative)
  4. Massive wealth and land redistribution

Most people can't because they have been programmed to see these as "holy touchstones" of their true religion, capitalism. And that means only economic power may rule, and there are no paths to the future except the profitable ones. They rather de-federate call socialists tankies and than to deal with the angry dirtbag left. They prefer to exist in a calm apolitical space with a total war on good vs evil.

So please don't insult people who can imagine many paths but also have the wisdom why all these paths are shut. It's just like a physics problem, you can't overcome the political energy worth trillions of dollars with a few measly millions of dollars of political energy we could muster.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can imagine lots of great future possibilities without doing any of those 4 things too. Mankind has the technology to do innumerable amazing things now.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes but the issue is that any technology will be used to maximize profit, which results in almost always the worst case outcome. We already have the technology for a global post-scarcity civilization with a circular economy.

Those 4 things are just random ideas but anything that is unprofitable or decreases power or destroys massive wealth of capitalists is basically censored in mainstream political discourse. And today effective countermeasures have been developed to make protests useless and reform or revolutions impossible.

But I do agree that this doesn't justify radical anti-natalism. Just teach your children profitable skills, multiple languages, subsistence farming, electronics and how to build electric motors and windmills, how to build a cozy tiny house or a boat. I also hope for technological advancements (like 3D printers, genetic engineering) that allow for a more democratic industrial base.

PS: Kurzgesagt has a new video on this: Is Our World Broken?. TLDW: We need to tell ourselves a new story (but that requires we stop believing in the old ones)