My family was never big into it, but when you grew up Jewish it wasjust an assumed default. I wasn’t even aware there were people opposed to it until around college.
Thankfully, the youth of today don’t have that problem.
I’ve been thinking about that lately… At least in America and in general, your specific post aside, people assume things changed for the better and bad things stopped. But It seems they are just distracted by entertainment and their own microcosms. There’s a real world out there that chaos owns and will own forever.
I feel like that’s how we got to where we are today in america… People thought the hard part was over and it was time to relax because the “bad” was fixed. And that gave time for the Christian nationalist, oligarchical, fake theocratic dictatorship to throw a coup on humanity.
It’s pretty obvious the plan is to replace natural honest life with Ai and surveillance until the idea of God as we know it can’t even exist. Like human existence won’t be something free or genuine… Like it will solidify the idea that we are basically just actually products and tools in a machine built by the idea of people that don’t live for honest humanity.
I find that when these thoughts creep in, what saves me from doomerism is focusing on the alternatives.
It can feel weird and irrational, because the alternative is organizing in my local community to help people, and connect more people with the work of doing the same. How is helping parents at my kid’s school get childcare during a teachers strike supposed to end our imperialist violence? How is cleaning up illegal dumping supposed to defeat techbro fascism?
By snowballing. By being the antitdote to the distraction and helplessness we’re programmed to feel.
We all need to go find people we like, then go out and fix things, without permission. Get caught doing good. Set an example, and link up. If we’re all building these tidepools, eventually we’ll make a flood.
Zionism.
My family was never big into it, but when you grew up Jewish it wasjust an assumed default. I wasn’t even aware there were people opposed to it until around college.
Thankfully, the youth of today don’t have that problem.
People still have that problem…
I’ve been thinking about that lately… At least in America and in general, your specific post aside, people assume things changed for the better and bad things stopped. But It seems they are just distracted by entertainment and their own microcosms. There’s a real world out there that chaos owns and will own forever.
I feel like that’s how we got to where we are today in america… People thought the hard part was over and it was time to relax because the “bad” was fixed. And that gave time for the Christian nationalist, oligarchical, fake theocratic dictatorship to throw a coup on humanity.
It’s pretty obvious the plan is to replace natural honest life with Ai and surveillance until the idea of God as we know it can’t even exist. Like human existence won’t be something free or genuine… Like it will solidify the idea that we are basically just actually products and tools in a machine built by the idea of people that don’t live for honest humanity.
I find that when these thoughts creep in, what saves me from doomerism is focusing on the alternatives.
It can feel weird and irrational, because the alternative is organizing in my local community to help people, and connect more people with the work of doing the same. How is helping parents at my kid’s school get childcare during a teachers strike supposed to end our imperialist violence? How is cleaning up illegal dumping supposed to defeat techbro fascism?
By snowballing. By being the antitdote to the distraction and helplessness we’re programmed to feel.
We all need to go find people we like, then go out and fix things, without permission. Get caught doing good. Set an example, and link up. If we’re all building these tidepools, eventually we’ll make a flood.