I feel like we’re living in a Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.
I feel like we’re living in a Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.
I don’t know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it’s not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.
Maybe I’m just reading badly into it.
The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren’t reliant on the Big Market.
The idea that we all need to disconnect from reality to stay sane is absolutely making reality worse.
This advice is from Boomer generations that hope to coast by before the world they neglected is no longer livable, while newer generations are forcing themselves to engage with reality because society is quickly becoming unlivable.