Not misanthropic, but I’m feeling more hopeless toward people in the imperial core, especially the “middle class” treatlerites. The optimist in me says that all that’s needed is to activate the class consciousness in them and then a real revolution could happen. However I’m starting to give up hope as capitalism is just designed to deflect all alienation towards commodity consumption and imperialism is designed so that stopping the exploitation of the third world means less treats, which apparently is a huge deal breaker for all of them. . People get very uncomfortable whenever you broach those topics. The banality of it all also depresses me, as people still talk about whether AR is going to replace smartphones, or AI doing some bullshit in the future as it destroys the environment, and not whether we’ll ever get a society that can house and feed everyone.

All revolutionary potential seems deflected at this anti-elitism which is totally non-materialist and just about what the last podcast episode you listened to said to believe in.

Is this what a third worldist believes in? I think I am becoming one.