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we americans are pathetic. it seems like we fall into one of these categories:
it's fucking hopeless and we deserve this. i'm building a bunker. fuck every one of you.-
Hey, I'm driving a manual trans don't be putting that on my whole generation.
The problem is: nobody wants to die, we all are fed and fat, our education system has been being weakened for 40 years now, did I mention the whole not dying part?
I'm hopeful that our institutions are strong enough to hold until the midterm elections, Dems will take Congress with a strong majority and we can avoid mass bloodshed and actually impeach the guy and get him convicted. No doubt that may be a long shot and people will suffer but I'm not violent revolution is anywhere in the cards anytime soon.
Edit: just to be clear, I do wish we were and kind of could do more. This is just my realist take
lol. ok.
If you had all the levers of wealth and power in the world, or if you as an individual had access to just one of them, wouldn't you do your part to build this kind of passive society too? Otherwise you might have to worry about your access to these levers and therefore your power being usurped. There are many ways to manipulate a person to work against their own interests, which are almost entirely concentrated into the hands of the wealthy owning class.
This is a problem of class antagonism, not the complicity and/or ignorance of the individually powerless. As a class we have to rise beyond these antagonisms; their manipulation of us into a class that passively allows them to profit from our labor and pays no mind to their corruption; by teaching class consciousness to the other members of our class. That is just as much on you and I as it is on anyone else.
i've understood class consciousness since 2001.
cool. What are you doing to introduce it to others?
i put in my time
Sounds like you're just as comfortable being a member of this passive society as anyone else you named, even if you took the long way around to the same conclusion.