Comment on Yes, yes they are
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 days agoYeah, but they can create the conditions where altruism is a non beneficial trait that ultimately leads to your untimely end. The goal isn’t for them to personally intervene in people’s lives, just to create the conditions that are most desirable to maintain their own position.
That’s why they’ve spent decades attacking the kindness of the working class. Turning the idea of charity into an insult, Christianity into prosperity Gospel, and being neighborly into an immigrant sympathizer. They want the lower class to idolize the same kind of disregard for empathy that made them rich to begin with.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I feel the same way, it’s just an uphill battle that seems to be getting harder by the decade.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Yep, all you can do is your best. Just keep one foot in front of the other and you’ll eventually end up old and tired, but hopefully content and with a mostly clear conscience.
Things have always been more fucked up than the general public likes to acknowledge, but I do admit that I really feel for younger people. I’m middle aged and have seen a lot in my time, but it does seem like the kids are going to have an even tougher go at it than I did, which is saying a lot. At least I got to see the analog world, before the towers fell and America cranked the crazy to 11, a time before the end of history.