We have enough people without the general ability to critically think
Everyone has the ability to think critically. What you often stumble on is their priors. People who have accumulated a body of understanding or a logic flow that is totally alien to you don’t seem to follow any kind of rational behavior patterns.
the fallout will be that we will rush into a probable Nuclear war coupled with ignoring climate change till it’s too late
We’ve been predicting imminent interstate thermonuclear war since the last bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Nearly a century later, we’ve never used one in an overt act of aggression. There’s a whole litany of reasons why. But the hard truth of it is that nuclear weapons aren’t any more efficient than nuclear power plants. You can get a lot more bang for your buck doing violence the conventional way. And we’ve done just that for decades.
Meanwhile Billionaires are undermining democracy across the globe
What we’re discovering is how little democracy there was to undermine. But, again, this isn’t news to anyone who has been paying attention. What’s shifted is demographics, not politics. The formerly hegemonic upper-middle class white male voter is no longer the dominant political face or voice, outside of the increasingly cloistered echo chambers of reactionary state-sanctioned media.
Even the fucking billionaires don’t have the decency to be interchangeable WASP stereotypes. So now we’re seeing a real crisis in continuity of governance, as Middle Easterners and East Asians and South Africans and Latin Americans all pop their heads up into the top rungs of the bureaucracy.
What we are seeing in the modern era isn’t a degraded democracy. It’s a civil war between the various plutocrats who they they should inherit the American Throne.
We are well and truly fucked.
The blinders are coming off your eyes as you learn more about the real function of the world at-large. And this can be immediately shocking, to the point that you assume “We’re at the end of the world!”
But to quote from the sage words of Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism:
Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action.
and, therefore
it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism
What we’re witnessing is the end of an era. It’s a thing every generation gets to bare witness to over enough time. It isn’t the end of The World, just the end of the world you were born into.
I really enjoy when people dont know the difference between democracy and republic. Democracy isnt failing, it simply hasnt been tried since athens. Whats failing is the system of corruption people like to call a “republic”. Why tf you would elect people to represent your interests instead of representing your interests is beyond me. Republics are the original ‘outsourcing your thinking’ creation.
Democracy isnt failing, it simply hasnt been tried
Jesus Christ dude, crack a civics book. We have a litany of mechanisms for direct popular governance already in place. My state constitution gets updated with a raft of popularly chosen amendments every election cycle.
Why tf you would elect people to represent your interests instead of representing your interests
Elected bureaucracy is not the only mode of civil engagement
Everyone has the ability to think critically. What you often stumble on is their priors. People who have accumulated a body of understanding or a logic flow that is totally alien to you don’t seem to follow any kind of rational behavior patterns.
We’ve been predicting imminent interstate thermonuclear war since the last bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Nearly a century later, we’ve never used one in an overt act of aggression. There’s a whole litany of reasons why. But the hard truth of it is that nuclear weapons aren’t any more efficient than nuclear power plants. You can get a lot more bang for your buck doing violence the conventional way. And we’ve done just that for decades.
What we’re discovering is how little democracy there was to undermine. But, again, this isn’t news to anyone who has been paying attention. What’s shifted is demographics, not politics. The formerly hegemonic upper-middle class white male voter is no longer the dominant political face or voice, outside of the increasingly cloistered echo chambers of reactionary state-sanctioned media.
Even the fucking billionaires don’t have the decency to be interchangeable WASP stereotypes. So now we’re seeing a real crisis in continuity of governance, as Middle Easterners and East Asians and South Africans and Latin Americans all pop their heads up into the top rungs of the bureaucracy.
What we are seeing in the modern era isn’t a degraded democracy. It’s a civil war between the various plutocrats who they they should inherit the American Throne.
The blinders are coming off your eyes as you learn more about the real function of the world at-large. And this can be immediately shocking, to the point that you assume “We’re at the end of the world!”
But to quote from the sage words of Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism:
and, therefore
What we’re witnessing is the end of an era. It’s a thing every generation gets to bare witness to over enough time. It isn’t the end of The World, just the end of the world you were born into.
The climate scientists say otherwise.
I really enjoy when people dont know the difference between democracy and republic. Democracy isnt failing, it simply hasnt been tried since athens. Whats failing is the system of corruption people like to call a “republic”. Why tf you would elect people to represent your interests instead of representing your interests is beyond me. Republics are the original ‘outsourcing your thinking’ creation.
Jesus Christ dude, crack a civics book. We have a litany of mechanisms for direct popular governance already in place. My state constitution gets updated with a raft of popularly chosen amendments every election cycle.
Elected bureaucracy is not the only mode of civil engagement