Ok, so obviously no one here has done anything to make this world what it is. Wall Street, corporations, and racist social structures are why the world is how it is, and that is just the truth.
I don’t understand why I should feel bad about anything when obviously all of these rich assholes and structures of oppression exist. I didn’t make them.
Until the corporations and wealthy people change, why should I feel guilty or bad about things. This literally isn’t my fault, they did this, so I just feel like I should be able to live my life and not have to worry about all this. Why can’t I?
The corporations and wealthy people won’t change by themselves, only large groups of people can overthrow these types of centralized power systems.
Ok so until those large groups of people overthrow the structures of power… that just sounds like saying “it takes 13 powerful mages in a circle chanting the anti-power incantation.”
It’s like, ok… but?
Go read a history book. The French revolution is a good place to start, but these kinds of things have happened hundreds of times in history.
Who’s saying you should feel guilty about what specifically?
so I just feel like I should be able to live my life and not have to worry about all this. Why can’t I?
Are you seeking permission or explanation?
I guess it’s a mixture of a lot of things.
First of all, there’s simply a lot of propaganda. It’s difficult to see the truth when you’re bombarded with propaganda all the time.
Secondly, it takes a lot of patience to figure out the right thing to do. Lots of people today simply don’t have that patience.
Then there is a lot of environmental problems.
It all adds up.
Secondly, it takes a lot of patience to figure out the right thing to do.
Seems pretty simple to me. Align yourself against the oppressors.
This question is very expansive, so it’s hard to say exactly why you feel what you do. Instead, let’s analyze the structure of modern society from a proletarian perspective. The people in power are placed there through an oligarchy-controlled democratic system, i.e. the democratically elected individuals are undemocratically selected by people that control the means of production to run the show, so all elected members in both established parties in the political class are chosen to be beneficial to the ones with money. The liberal right party (republicans) are increasingly beholden to merging the political class and the economic class together, i.e. fascism.
The other party is torn between liberal progressivism and don’t want to cede too much power to corporations, though they still believe that free market capitalism is the most efficient method of distributing resources so they still cede substantial power to an unelected oligarchy. The positive aspect is that this liberal left is dogshit at messaging and pretty much everything else that would give them an advantage. This presents a solution actually. Through external pressure and internal realignment, the liberal left can be pushed into a progressive left position due to the hands-off nature of the oligarchy.
You should feel bad about the current politico-economic system because it’s inherently cruel. But that human touch also pushes progress forward and encouges sympathetic progressive individuals to get active, realigning the liberal left into a progressive left. We also need to know about the right time to take action, which is why we need to stay informed.
It’s tiring, seeing everything in the world happening, and knowing that we as individuals can’t do much. But we can still do something, and when the time is right we can be massively influential. Don’t lose hope, and don’t forget that we always need to push for a more just society.
I thought progress was a myth that killed the Indians?
It depends on the type of progress we’re talking about. I’m talking about political progress, i.e. leftism, socialism, etc. The “progress” of the native American genocide was an inherently right wing, genocidal ideology with the belief that colonial settlers were given the supreme right to control all the land between both oceans. Real progress would be creating a landback framework for native Americans in a true 2 state solution that gives total autonomy to tribes.
I don’t think anyone’s saying that you’re to blame. It’s just that you might be persuaded to help clean up this mess.
Ok, so obviously no one here has done anything
But of course you have.
to make this world what it is. Wall Street, corporations, and racist social structures are why the world is how it is,
You are the society. You have chosen who owns you.
You have voted for the ones who made the rules. You have taken all their baits to make them even more powerful.
You have decided (and still do it every day) to use Big Tech’s tech and make them rich. You are paying all their fees and rents daily to make them even richer.
obviously no one here has done anything
And of course you can still decide to stay in The Matrix, because it’s comfy here :-)
No I agree with the OP.
I don’t accept responsibility for this world. You say we can vote, but that’s meaningless when all candidates are picked by the establishment, and when they are powerless to change the world.
You also can’t say we are choosing to use big tech, since they own everything. It’s not a real choice to not use them. You can’t have a car or a phone or a computer without supporting big tech. Living in the stone age means you have no voice, so that’s not a solution.
The game is rigged. People growing up today have no choice. It’s not their fault. In my opinion.
It’s not a real choice to not use them.
It’s not one big choice but many smaller choices.
Some of them are harder than others, and I fully agree that some of them may even seem impossible for some reason or other.
Well I think it’s more about the game being rigged.
If you don’t give the population meaningful choices to affect our daily lives, it’s all pointless to try and do something.
It’s not that the choices are hard, it’s that they have no real meaning for the world. You can choose to not have a car, which makes your life difficult. And it’s also pointless because corporation transports pollute the air every day a billion times more than private cars do.
If the world wanted to have a clean environment, all they need to do is put extreamly expensive fines on all of that. But they don’t, since money is what matters, not clean air.
