Humans have been propagandized too hard into being selfish, low empathy and ableist to ever work together effectively. We will suffer under this system until collapse takes us out because we are that shitty at doing the one thing humans are supposed to be good at (working together to make our environments safe). In the current way of things, there is too much of an incentive to be selfish and too much of a punishment for basic decency.

There’s almost a disgust towards altruism. We don’t even bother lying to one an other about it being okay to ask for help any more. Instead we repeat the same old jaded conservative rhetoric, shrug our shoulders at those in need and say “Well life comes at you hard, toughen up buttercup!”. I thought this obsession with calling everyone weak would die with boomers, but now every generation does it. Because why deal with a scary systemic problem when you can juat wipe your hands clean with the magic of personal responsibility? All it took was a few years of normalised atrocity porn on social media and selling cruelty as maturity and everyone decided to do the Goebbels shuffle.

Eugenics never died, we perform it every day when we decide an undesirable in need isn’t worth the trouble. I feel like I’m surrounded by dangerous wild animals and yet every day I’m supposed to prove my worth to them. And god forbid my grown adult ass points this out because lord knows I should know how the “real world” works. I do, Karen, I just don’t use my own lack of a spine and internalized fear of punishment as an excuse to justify systemic cruelty.

I think the thing that pisses me off is the smugness about it with these people, it’s always “Heh, you’ll give in and grow up eventually like the rest of us or die.” That’s not something to be smug about, that’s just sad. Your compassion was stripped from you in order to protect yourself and that’s sad.

I hate being negative like this so fuck it. Bloomer post coming soon.

  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Humans have been propagandized too hard into being selfish, low empathy and ableist to ever work together effectively. We will suffer under this system until collapse takes us out because we are that shitty at doing the one thing humans are supposed to be good at (working together to make our environments safe). In the current way of things, there is too much of an incentive to be selfish and too much of a punishment for basic decency.

    but it takes continuous effort to maintain the relentless abuse that creates these incentives. as the system collapses, all of that social machinery will evaporate and the perverse incentives will disappear. this can be seen during disasters and power outages, when sometimes the unspoken social rules that keep people alienated are suddenly and temporarily suspended and many people report experiencing unprecedented feelings of solidarity and community. humans will spontaneously organize when the incentives to do otherwise are gone.

  • dil [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Each generation needs to be propagandized, because it’s our nature to help each other and strive for fairness.

    In my opinion, we shouldn’t judge humanity by how we survive in a system that rewards cruelty. Under capitalism, empathy is weakness and people who talk about the “real world” are ones that have accepted that cruelty is part of the game. Those people also can’t imagine a world beyond capitalism, which is why they attribute the cruelty to humanity instead of the system we’re under.

    Communism will win. It’s easy for me to forget that it’s still young from a historical perspective. We’re just over 100 years since the first socialist state, which is like one person. There are millions of people today that are older than the PRC, which in that time has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and reshaped the global economy. Capitalism is in decline and socialism is on the rise, which is most obvious when looking across decades.

    I firmly believe that under a system that encourages cooperation instead of cruelty, our culture will be almost unrecognizable from today’s. I also firmly believe that the system will change for the better.

    Getting from here to there is gonna be absolute hell, but people will fight for a better world just like they have throughout history.

    • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If everything is automated, yeah, a world like that is very possible, but it’s false or misleading to say that communism has then succeeded “after all”. It’s ONLY possible in this highly automated world, and very likely NOT in any other world.

      It’s an outcome anyone could have imagined if automation takes care of everything.

      • dil [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Karl Marx is also dead, but there’s no need to cut the hopium with reality lol

        Plus it seems very reasonable to me that a communist society would invest in automating jobs that people don’t want to do

  • iByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Not much to say but meow-hug I feel the same

    The inherent social nature of humans isn’t completely lost, you still see it sometimes when someone is in need of help in the street for example (more likely if they’re white and have no signs of being a filthy commie)

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I definitely have those thoughts but then I go around and end up meeting random strangers who are so nice and I remember how everywhere I’ve ever been there are really nice people who are willing to go out of their way to help people. There are certainly way too many people who are really against good and maybe you’ve found yourself physically located in an area where they are highly concentrated but I promise it’s not even a majority of people, it’s just that the average nice person isn’t as visible because they are probably working some job they hate or doing chores or aren’t allowed to live in your area or something

  • refolde [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I feel like there’s something to be said in this: if being an evil and uncaring piece of shit rewards you and allows you to continue living, and trying to do good gets you punished or otherwise killed, then that would explain why good people seem so few and powerless. Thinking about it, if the good people keep dying and the bad ones keep living, then it’s the bad ones who will establish the standards for future generations.

    • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I see good people everywhere, there just aren’t as many opportunities to be a good person as there are to be rewarded for being shitty. Like when I’ve fallen on my bike, people have helped me, or I saw an older person trip on a sidewalk and the people nearby instinctively stopped and helped. I think it’s the natural instinct to help others in need, humans are a social species and wouldn’t have succeeded without this drive, it’s just beaten out of everyone by the pressures of our economic system. In spite of all the evil being rewarded, many people are struggling to make things better.