Can you fucking believe it? The obvious move toward drone technology for land, sea and air and our moronic government is buying warships and fighter jets. When will the stupidity end?
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It's only stupid when you assume that the government is working in the interests of the working majority. However, if our government represents the interests of the oligarchs like the Irvings then this makes perfect sense. It's a great way to divert our tax dollars from socially useful things they're meant for like building housing or infrastructure, and put them back in the hands of the kleptocrats who own this country.
I see your point but I'll stick to my view that it's stupid, for the people. That is always my take.
It is stupid for the people, and therefore we should not be tolerating our government working against the interests of the working majority.
So what to do because I've tried nothing and am all out of ideas.
At the stage we are currently at, education is really the thing to focus on in my opinion. No meaningful change will be possible until there is a critical mass of people who have a shared understanding of the problems, and agree on a general course of action. This is a good read with some food for thought
What rabbit hole is this that you have shared? It does look like a good read and I'll definitely follow up. To your point, no meaningful change will be possible until we genetically alter our humanity into something more coherent. As we are late to the show we will also have to resort to a bit of extermination as well if we hope to beat the clock on the worlds demise. That's the part where people think I'm nuts, which is of no consequence. They have no concept of the depths to which we will be sinking either way.
I'd argue that social systems can be just as effective at driving human behavior as anything. A lot of people who've only lived under western capitalism tend to conflate the way humans behave within this system with human nature in general. Having grown up in USSR, I can tell you that social relations are very much a product of economic relations within society.
Forgive my perhaps uninformed take on Russia but isn't there much more social cohesion because there is a common dislike of the state and the economic situation due to their actions and corruption? Once basic needs are met, as used to be the case in the west, people will branch off into goals based more on their own "selfish" desires. I try not to get too sidetracked with my doom and gloom scenarios because I'm well aware that there is no support for these extremes. I just wonder how to establish the social buy in of a single country or world population with time running out.
During the Soviet years, most people were pretty content with the state of things actually. Everybody had guaranteed jobs, housing, healthcare, and education. Nobody worried about being able to retire in dignity either. The period when things were actually bleak was the post USSR period in the early 90s.
Social cohesion stemmed from communist organization of society. Since there was no capitalism there was no path to capital accumulation. There weren't people like Musk or Bezos running around. The way you got ahead was by becoming an artist, a scientist, or an engineer. These were the people who were held in highest regard.