I would love to see it, but I’m mostly just gobsmacked by how much balls-out plutocratic fuckery we’re already accepting. Corporations snatching up all the houses, grocery stores jacking up prices with abandon, our sick joke of a medical system pricing us out of being alive, insurance companies charging more and covering nothing. People seem more upset about streaming services raising prices and shovelling ads into everything, but they’re still fucking paying for them. It’s insane the abuse that the public is willing to accept, provided that there’s someone worse off who we can look down on.
Look all I’m saying is, when shit like this happened to medieval Chinese peasants, millions of landholders died and they still had more free time than us
(Before a liberal points out the obvious, I am aware technology has advanced since the Qing dynasty)
I think the biggest issue is that we don’t know what to do when we’re mad anymore. People think that being mad is all you need - that if you say you’re mad, things will change. I often see people get pissed about something, then calm down and move on, as if they somehow achieved something with their anger alone.
I’m hoping that there’s some pressure going on under the surface, and people will eventually reach a point where enough anger has built up that they can’t take it anymore and they really take action, but from what I’ve seen, people are so against the concept of acting upon angry feelings that I worry they’ll just hold it in until they die.
Action needs to be organized and have a clear purpose. Disorganized, unfocused action is easily overcome by the powerful. After decades of a very deliberate culture of individualism, we have a psychological mountain to climb in finding our way back to focused collective action. Not to mention that the mechanisms of such action (such as labor unions) have been gradually dismantled for half a century or more.
Oh they know how mad you are. They just don’t care. What the fuck you gonna do about it, pleb?
They do be looking pretty tasty right about now.
And I happen to have tons of barbeque sauce left over
Can we just flash mob this thing? I’ll bring the grill
Which rich ass do you habe in mind? (I personally live in Germany, but if I can order takeout, that’d be great)
Great. When do we eat?
I hope the reckoning is swift and soon but I have a feeling this decade is going to end with most of us still saying “any day now”…
Unfortunately most of my friends don’t see a reason to revolt. They think that there aren’t enough of us.
Always has been
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So many are living in total wilful ignorance of politics that I don’t think anything is going to happen, most people barely even look at the news and if they did they wouldn’t understand most of it, nevermind the subtleties and nuance of identifying bias and dogwhistles etc., they just check twitter feeds for their product fandoms so they know when to consume product and when to get excited for the next product.
They are happy being fucked for all their labour value as long as they get that dopamine hit from whatever vapid bullshit is trotted out of some dystopian removed like SK.
I’ve decided the best and most feasible thing I can do right now is thoroughly decoupling myself from the corporate consumerism world, I haven’t had Netflix (boycotted over Chapelle initially then just stuck with it) in many years now and I just got around to cancelling Prime too, I’ve deleted all food delivery apps and I pirate all my media and use ublock/sponsor block everywhere, the only thing left to cancel is Spotify, I only ever buy used gadgets like old laptops that’d probably end up in a landfill, some of which I use to host Jellyfin etc.
I am sorry, but what does SK stand for? All I can think of is Slovakia and it is just too funny 🤣
I assume South Korea. Calling it a dystopian removed seems kinda unfair (especially when the only land border is with an actual dystopian nightmare of a country) but there is valid reason for the criticism. Korea has an incredibly patriarchal society where calling out authority is seen as a big no-no. Working hours are intense. Time after work is frequently spent with your colleagues and boss because of strong social expectations, with it being normal to expect employees to stay out drinking until the boss is ready to go home. Pressure for students at school is so intense the government has had to make efforts to ban the ubiquitous “hagwon” private approval schooling. For many, not achieving a spot at the one specific university is considered failure. The economy is something almost literally out of a dystopia, controlled by a handful of “chaebols”, massive family-owned conglomerates like Samsung, Hyundai, LG, and Lotte.
assume South Korea. Calling it a dystopian removed seems kinda unfair (especially when the only land border is with an actual dystopian nightmare of a country) but there is valid reason for the criticism.
The Korean peninsula can have two dystopian removeds, as a treat.
Very different kinds of dystopias though. One’s basically taken right out of a cyberpunk novel with corporations ruling over an ostensibly-free populous. The other is an extreme authoritarian dictatorship where the government rules with an iron fist.
Don’t forget semi feudal levels of personal luxuries.
When you put it like that, it sounds like something out of Metro 2033.
