Sometimes, you just need to wipe the drawing board clean and start over. 🤷👋 🔥

  • @fuck_u_spez_in_particular
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    Yeah I don’t know. Just see how the modern world is shaping society to the negative. Generation Instagram/TikTok all want to be influencers, there’s growing mental illnesses. Fertility rapidly declining (and it isn’t unfortunately all because of education). Capitalism is almost perfected abusing the dopamine system in an unhealthy way. I don’t want to be a doomer. I just don’t see where we are close to utopia. Which for me would be more sociali(sm) more community, less narcissism/egoism and more solarpunk. But right now we are on a different path. I’m happy to be proven wrong though…

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      328 days ago

      That’s why I’ve started trying to disconnect from social media. So far it’s been harder then quitting smoking

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      Yeah I don’t know. Just see how the modern world is shaping society to the negative I just don’t see where we are close to utopia But right now we are on a different path

      That was essentially a big part of my point. We could be close to a utopia by now (from the perspective of technological possibilities).

      Instead, as I said

      for some suspicious reason we took a very different road, and here we are

      That said I don’t currently believe technology itself is inherently bad.

      Like all tools, it depends what you do with it.

      Is a general purpose tool like hammer good or bad? It has the capacity for both. And therefore it’s up to the user which is which.

      And that’s the issue really, what are we doing with our wonderous technology?

      This might be a bit of a radical take. But in that ~125 year window i was refering to, alot of machines we’ve invented are actually weapons.

      Weapons to destroy eachother physically (conflict/threats of violence etc).

      Weapons to destroy nature (deforestation and probably most mining).

      Weapons to destroy the mind (social media etc, actually most media now).

      What if we’d had 1+¼ century of building a collective utopia instead of all these weapons?

      afaict from the technical perspective it’s not really unfeasible, its the non-technical problem: the user and what they use the tools for.

      Another clue for us is probably the term appropriate technology, which is a vibe i think eg. solar punk is helping to cultivate.

      Anyway we’ve done ALOT of misuse. That’s why i don’t blame technology itself.

      I still think it’s more about what we’ve done with it.

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      128 days ago

      Capitalism defeats itself through decline. The decline is a part of the process, join an org and build up dual power so that when it does collapse, there is a ready-made alternative. Thinking and hoping don’t get you closer to Socialism.

      • @fuck_u_spez_in_particular
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        128 days ago

        Believe me I’m doing all parts of things towards this, but I’m being realistic, I’m just 1 of 8 billion people… And Capitalism as much as I would like it to be different seems to be a rather stable system (destabilising all sorts of other things, don’t get me wrong). I expect other things to collapse first (and foremost ecological systems).

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          128 days ago

          people… And Capitalism as much as I would like it to be different seems to be a rather stable system

          In what way? Disparity rises and Imperialism gets worse until it eats itself alive. Systems exist in motion, and Capitalism is unsustainable.

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            It is, but I fear it will break apart much later than we hope it is. And likely violently, as worse ecosystems also mean less base on which capitalism can grow which in the past lead to conflicts. I mean the whole stuff gets already unstable when it isn’t growing (and I don’t mean capitalism as whole, more like everything connected to it)

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                128 days ago

                Does it really? How do you come to that conclusion?

                I mean climate change is certainly faster than most of the stubborn people, not grasping how much damage has already been done (as all of this comes in delayed and with feedback effects, which are already in motion).

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                  Capitalism isn’t lasting because people are “stubborn.” It legitimately cannot sustain itself economically even without climate change. As disparity rises, and wages fail to keep up with productivity, rates of profit lower and exploitation increases.

                  • @fuck_u_spez_in_particular
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                    I mean we’re seeing it in the USA already don’t we (as one of the more capitalistic examples)? Capitalism is still pretty stable, a lot of are mentally ill (otherwise I can’t explain why someone like Trump is so popular). (And physically too). Opiate crisis. Richest country, yet the poorest are living in similar conditions as those in the poorer countries in Africa. I can name more examples of society falling apart, but yet capitalism still being strong (even in the democratic party). I mean I agree with your points (which are undermined by mine), yet that doesn’t mean that capitalism is falling apart - and that means IMO that a major part of the people agree (and especially those with power, be it financial/political or military), that the system is is inherently flawed, and needs to be changed. But exactly that is something I’m not seeing anytime soon.