This will be a non-political post (I do think about things that aren't related to politics, from time to time), though it is related to the general situation. It's been on my mind for a while, but IDK how to express it in a coherent way, so I'll stick with random comments I wrote on the fly and go on if / when I come up with more stuff. Maybe that's the result of COVID re-infections, or spending too much time on social media, IDK-- anyways, here goes:
The Powers That Be want you to be poor, powerless, and alienated of course-- but they've largely accomplished that already. It's fait accompli in the 2020s. Now what they want to do is go even further and occupy your mind. They want to drain your personality of beauty and youthfulness and libido, in order to leave an addicted lifeless husk which will toil in the zombie economy they've set up.
Their efforts have taken on a spiritual dimension, where they target whatever traces of beauty and heterosexuality and energy still exist these days and try to purge them from the environment. That's why everything these days looks more and more grey, sterile, and lifeless. That's why new culture and entertainment is so lame and unexciting, even when it's made by young people.
They want to sink their claws into you and drag you down to hell with them.
As people become mired in ugliness, they develop Stockholm Syndrome. They start to reject and clamp down on whatever traces of beauty are left, because tolerating them would be an awful reminder of how much the present sucks. Then they say, 'that never existed' or 'everyone has always been miserable, especially in the past' or 'you're just a conspiracy theorist (for noticing how much everything sucks these days)'.
These widespread addictions allow people to cope with life in a lifeless society. It's an opiate for the masses.
If you're a young person (under 40), you of course should try to fight neoliberalism, declining living standards, falling wages, etc etc etc-- but also recognize that those efforts, while heroic and noble, will most likely not succeed. It's more of a question of minimizing the negative effects or coping with them. However, until a viable alternative to the neolib establishment emerges, the struggle in the personal domain is just as important. That would be keeping this evil from corroding your soul, in your immediate personal life.
Whenever I develop the confidence to start my cult / resistance movement, this will certainly be one of the first speeches I deliver. I'm much better at speaking / public speaking than I am at writing, there's just something about addressing the masses that's energizing.
ReplyDeleteThe whole energetic, charismatic pep-rally kind of culture is gone these days, all we have are ironic sub-sub-subgroups where nobody is intensely connected to anyone else.
That's also another sign of how neoliberal and corrupted the left is these days. Leftists in Latin America, and resistance groups in the M-E, regularly address their people, hold rallies, and other mass / normie-oriented events. They want to ramp up the crowd's energy and use it to fuel them on. Sometimes this is joyful or victorious, sometimes it's sad or somber, but it's vital either way.
ReplyDeleteNothing could be further from today's Western leftists. Gays and trannies are too snickering and weird to do public speaking-- if anything they'd horrify the spectators (at worst) and at best just amuse them. Women are not very good speakers either. That leaves straight men, especially the cool / badass type, but they're not allowed to be part of the left these days.
Republicans are the party of parasites and, aside from Trump, they also come across as too creepy to energize people. I'd put Tulsi and RFK in that category, too, but they don't fit in with either camp.
It'll be a sign of real change when the left can run candidates that can actually address and motivate huge swathes of people, unlike today where the best they can hope for is a lukewarm reception.
What are these addictions?
ReplyDeleteI see drugs as being a key part of the neoliberal order. Decades of decriminalization speak for themselves. Fundamentally, nobody who is happy or content with their lives regularly consumes drugs, especially hard drugs (which have become way more common and even normalized). It's a cope for personal dissatisfaction, for some other problem or pain that they're suffering from. Maybe they can't afford real food or a real life. Maybe they hate theirs, they feel like all their relationships are fake. IDK-- the point is that widespread addictions are a sign of this.
Pornography, sexual fetishes, the trans phenomenon, MRAs, feminists-- also soul-warping and anti-social.
Irony-poisoning, not being capable of sincerely expressing anything or showing emotion. People who are terminally irony-poisoned all wind up insane and miserable, despite the snarky facade they put. Laughing (or rather, snickering) all the way to mental breakdown.
School shooter syndrome and fantasies in general. Lashing out at innocent people, instead of confronting someone stronger than you or equal to you. Way more common these days, and pathetic. Because our society is so fucked up, we've come to see taking anger out at people who don't deserve it as something worthy of praise or a sign of strength (or at least, a growing chunk of people feel that way).
Also: 'you have to fight to keep your smile'. Your smile, meaning your child-like enthusiasm, wonder, joy, spontaneity. All those things are becoming more and more rare these days. How often do you see sincere, normal, smiles these days? How often do people look happy? Fucked up society!