I sort of tell myself that it’s probably that I just hate how people are under capitalism, but sometimes I wonder if I simply dislike being around people in general.
I sort of tell myself that it’s probably that I just hate how people are under capitalism, but sometimes I wonder if I simply dislike being around people in general.
I don’t think it’s a paradox. Hexbear gets weirdly utopian. Our revolution is about making the worst instincts and behaviours economically and politically irrelevant. There will still be horrible people in our everyday lives. There will still be abuses but the power balance will be gone.
Utopian and Scientific?
This is a wonderful distillation of my entire attitude.
@[email protected] I got family I love to bits and I’m also really glad I only see them like a couple times a year. It doesn’t mean I don’t really love them or wouldn’t drop everything to help them. But we all have our limits. I’d take a person who volunteers twice a month at a food bank for 20 years over somebody that does it every day for three months, burns out, and never comes back. We don’t need people to martyr themselves to prove they give a shit. Building a better world will be slow and steady, it’ll be unglamorous, and it’ll be (hopefully, ideally) boring as fuck. But that’s a good thing. And that gives us plenty of time to work on ourselves, self care and do what we need to be the best version of ourselves to each other.
Yeah but there will be less of them (cluster B disorders are less likely to form in positive developmental environments) and such behaviour won’t be incentivized on a systemic level. Such issues would be taken more seriously by society because the goal switches from keeping the elite’s profits high to human betterment.
We shouldn’t underestimate how powerful deliberate changes to the environment and legal systems to maximize common good could be, the differences it would make even in a generation.
Nobody is (hopefully) believing that everything would be peachy post-revolution. Actually Stalin said that during this point the contradictions are the strongest and most notable.