It’s just going to be crabs in a bucket until we all die, huh?
People are just going to get more and more fash, aren’t they?
EDIT: Thank you all for reminding me there are things to be hopeful for, and that organising and community are important.
It’s just going to be crabs in a bucket until we all die, huh?
People are just going to get more and more fash, aren’t they?
EDIT: Thank you all for reminding me there are things to be hopeful for, and that organising and community are important.
Humanity is gonna make it. I think the whole humanity is selfish it’s evolutionary thing is wrong. Throughout history time and time again humanity has come together and made progress and I think it’ll happen again. All of this fascism is the empire dying. These are the death throes of global capitalism. It’s up to us to be ready with community hand in hand to pick up the pieces.
Yeah it’s gonna be unimaginable levels of suck and we are not all gonna make it and that’s absolutely horrible. But humanity can do this. I believe in us
I mean yeah, we aren’t going extinct. But I’m starting to hear people talk about three degrees of warming as a more or less done deal and that’s fucking apocalyptic. I think it’s a near certainty that we’re going to see hundreds of millions of excess deaths minimum before the end of the century, just from climate change. Between the death throes of a nuclear-armed empire and of a global economic system, and the coming climate catastrophe, I don’t know what pieces will be left to pick up.
Not only is it a lie that “humanity is inherently selfish, that’s just evolution,” but the exact opposite is the case. Arguably the primary reason that humanity became as successful as it did, evolutionarily speaking, is because of our capacity for cooperation.
(Just a side note, one doesn’t have to be an anarchist to appreciate Peter Kropotkin and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.)
I’m like a one-man army promoting A Paradise Built In Hell because she talks all about this. She even references US Military studies of the WWII strategic bombing campaigns being counterproductive because they galvanized the bombed populace. It is a great companion to the Shock Doctrine book.