silverneedle
@silverneedle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon reads about Milton Friedman 3 days ago:
the lie that “capitalism is inevitable.”
It was inevitable in the development of class society, at least when we look at history. So that is not a lie. If capitalism is inevitable, what is there to be afraid of? Capitalism is the state of the world. Similarly I can say, “communism is inevitable”, which I adhere to.
To deepen this whole thing let’s consider capitalism as historically progressive from the standpoint of a 16th century someone. Capitalism was needed to create the worker and the worker as a class. Capitalism gave us Marx, Fourier, Lafargue, Kropotkin and all the others that knew or at least felt that the story doesn’t end with capitalism.
Heads of state of influential world superpowers absolutely have a disproportionate effect on the development of the world for decades and even generations after their time in office.
That is what it looks like. You don’t see the strategizers, funders and victims that enable these decisions.
If you can’t see that, then I guess you believe the world is purely deterministic and human choice doesn’t matter.
On a, well, deeper level I cannot refute determinism, but I don’t believe in it as a method of considering the world as I don’t know everything and everything needs to be known to be a successful determinist.
so then I guess you’re also a nihilist who says we shouldn’t vote
Yes, democracy as a principle does not create new structures within society but reproduces the status quo. I’d advise to look at how people actually push change forward. That happens simply by joining a cause or leaving it. No voting necessary. In addition to that there are quite a few absurdities in democracy, like letting people vote on who gets to be killed. Stalin was a democrat in that he sent goons to villages and then let the mob decide who gets sacrificed. Democracy is too despotic for my taste, it certainly fulfilled none of my needs as a prole. Please don’t call me a nihilist though, I am older than 16.
or fight for climate action or even resist fascism
Oh yes, let me resist a system like fully ramped up fascism that I have no avenue in fighting because there is no workers’ movement. Genius idea.
I guess we can’t hold anyone in power accountable for the results of their decisions, because that would be “great man/woman” fallacy, right
Sure. They could be reformed if they are forcibly proletarized, fully expropriated and such. At the same time I adhere to no particular moralism around this, if they are held to account as you say then that is something people ought to do with no expectation that one ought to join in.
- Comment on Anon reads about Milton Friedman 3 days ago:
That’s a part of the lie that “capitalism is inevitable.”
Incorrect. Capitalism was practically everywhere in the 70s when Neoliberalism came onto the scene. It was already there. Neoliberalism is a logical development within capitalism as capitalism reaches the highest possible productivity achievable with it.
There is nothing super special about Neoliberalism when you look at the way the world was before WWII.
but if we didn’t have Reagan or Thatcher
Great man/woman theory.
- Comment on Anon reads about Milton Friedman 3 days ago:
Neoliberalism would have come one way or the other. Doesn’t matter if Milton Friedman was a Jack Burner or a Jan Wouters.
- Comment on What OSes do Microsoft servers run on? 1 week ago:
Imagine walking up to a Microsoft engineer and asking them what software their company’s servers run on
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 week ago:
It’s not the sort of thing where we have clear statistics on. If we had statistics on the “Gen Z stare” then those would be of limited use due to the lack of historical data which could give us contextualised information in conjunction with contemporary statistics.
There seem to be only anecdotes. The above post marks my first hearing of such a phenomenon and I do therefore think not much of it. I would stipulate that any discussion around the “Gen Z stare” has more in common with folklore retold for nice musings than information which interfaces with the world as it is lived.
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- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 week ago:
Simple answer: no
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
For your future practice, if anything I am a narcissist.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
Well thank you for your therapy session :) I appreciate it
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
Oh snap, what is this?!?! You psychopath!
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
your perceived property
You are insinuating that I view people as property. Nice attempt at an inversion. That is not the case, I consider anyone a friend that I am one being with. Friends can only be the people that you sync up with, I’m sure you’d agree.
Have you been a victim of abuse or trauma?
To the untrained reader this is an especially effective rhetoric tactic to attack the person you are talking with. You go show everybody how insane or mentally unstable I am for having merely having read those theoreticians of the 19th century and applying the knowledge. Please read what Mr. Marx wrote in the last edition of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (and all of his other works, along with those of Bakhunin, Kropotkin, Lassalle, Luxemburg and so on. Extra points for reading every little critique people had against any theorist).
- To answer your question: I had a loving childhood
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
I think your values are sociopathic and destructive
I’d like to carefully disagree here. If someone took a friend from me, or abused them terribly without any apology, I would want them to die. I think this is a very empathetic and prosocial reaction which is not at all sociopathic. Think of the time female bonobos brutally killed a member of their cohort for killing a defenseless baby that truly couldn’t act in its own interest.
What is sociopathic however is that we salute them troops because they keep the country safe by squashing alleged threats. Only a minority stands to benefit from what we currently consider good, those who make the world work in concrete terms will never meet those beneficiaries. Workers have their lives exhausted and brains forcefed with shit for a section of people that would forever remain abstract to them. A prosocial reaction by workers would spell Armageddon on the current state of the world, and believe me, that is most likely what you are pointing towards but still are too scared to consider the full implications of.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
I reject the notion of objective goods as that is a contradiction in adjectives and neither is it in my specific interests that everyone has food, water, healthcare, education and shelter.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
It is exactly so that everyone does not know what “better” and “improvement” means. Someone who is of a more libertarian persuasion because they got lucky with Bitcoin might see talk about improvements and betterment that entails it being impossible to own a private recreational nuke as being inconsistent. Betterment in your case can mean that a small business owner has his property forcibly converted into communally operated MoP. Those that enforce change in their interest might see their concept of humanity warped beyond recognition in a most certainly traumatic process of historical necessity. It’s kind of like saying the immune system is a good thing, for the viruses it’s not and autoimmune reactions are a huge complication to the lives of organisms with immune systems.
With good and bad any further explication stops. Something is good. Okay. Why is it good? Because it is good. It nearly always plays out circularly like this, except if there is a scientific process of criticism that spawns from this line of questioning. The latter almost never occurs. All of morality, and much of ethics is circular.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
What if one’s mental health issues come from being poor?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
If we optimized for human happiness and quality of life instead of profits we’d have a far better world
Let’s respectfully leave the moralism in the church. We wouldn’t have a “better” world, whatever good and better are, we would have a world (an abstraction, I prefer the term “set of social relations”) that is in the interest of all that work, will work, and have worked to sustain reproduction of life, i.e. worked to continue to live.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 weeks ago:
Stop using streaming services and set sail
