Comradeship // Freechat

You know what I've realized lately? Liberals across the anglosphere would rather spend their time fantasizing about a Civil War or Day of the Rope or WW3 or whatever because it's a more fun and flattering projection than the much more likely reality of conditions in the Core becoming worse and worse and worse over the course of decades until it's stopped by a cohesive revolutionary movement. It's less hopeless to imagine a big dramatic conflagration where fascists either win or lose than it is to imagine a future where, regardless of which team is in office, the working class (and/or labour aristocracy) keeps getting steadily crushed with no obvious heroic rebel group coming in to rescue them, year after year, decade after decade. And, more importantly, it absolves one of any individual responsibility by imagining that eventually a Civil War will happen and either absolve the contradictions (good ending) or doom everybody (in which case it doesn't matter). I'm willing to be wrong about all of this. But from I can see, the non-stop dooming about things like ecology and economic issues like AI is a subconscious way for people to tell themselves that "we're fucked anyways" which means they don't have to learn or do anything really because We're Doomed. It's easier for people to imagine the apocalypse than it is to imagine the end of capitalism, to quote some guy.