I would love to see it, but I’m mostly just gobsmacked by how much balls-out plutocratic fuckery we’re already accepting. Corporations snatching up all the houses, grocery stores jacking up prices with abandon, our sick joke of a medical system pricing us out of being alive, insurance companies charging more and covering nothing. People seem more upset about streaming services raising prices and shovelling ads into everything, but they’re still fucking paying for them. It’s insane the abuse that the public is willing to accept, provided that there’s someone worse off who we can look down on.
Look all I’m saying is, when shit like this happened to medieval Chinese peasants, millions of landholders died and they still had more free time than us
(Before a liberal points out the obvious, I am aware technology has advanced since the Qing dynasty)
The systems of control they have created are resilient.
When you hear the GOP talking about how privileged we are to have indoor plumbing and refrigerators you really start to understand where they think the bottom is.
Revolt will come from the Global South before it reaches the Imperial Core, but it will come. Exploitation is rising and productivity is too, so change will come.
Cool, Cool, I’ll just continue to laugh each time you’re god emperor fall’s asleep or gets fined in court. It truly is hilarious how you celebrate such a massive moron.
In the 20th century, the “Roaring Twenties” ended with the great depression.
In the 21st century, we’re in the “Screaming Twenties”, and I hope it ends with a manic frenzy of plutocrat cannibalism… But I doubt it will have a catchy name or be called “great” by anyone.
So many are living in total wilful ignorance of politics that I don’t think anything is going to happen, most people barely even look at the news and if they did they wouldn’t understand most of it, nevermind the subtleties and nuance of identifying bias and dogwhistles etc., they just check twitter feeds for their product fandoms so they know when to consume product and when to get excited for the next product.
They are happy being fucked for all their labour value as long as they get that dopamine hit from whatever vapid bullshit is trotted out of some dystopian shithole like SK.
I’ve decided the best and most feasible thing I can do right now is thoroughly decoupling myself from the corporate consumerism world, I haven’t had Netflix (boycotted over Chapelle initially then just stuck with it) in many years now and I just got around to cancelling Prime too, I’ve deleted all food delivery apps and I pirate all my media and use ublock/sponsor block everywhere, the only thing left to cancel is Spotify, I only ever buy used gadgets like old laptops that’d probably end up in a landfill, some of which I use to host Jellyfin etc.
It’s South Korea. Country is 3 corpos in a trenchcoat and the culture is based on merit where merit is how hard you slave for those corpos. Seeing that shit so pushedby the mainstream disgusts me.
I assume South Korea. Calling it a dystopian shithole seems kinda unfair (especially when the only land border is with an actual dystopian nightmare of a country) but there is valid reason for the criticism. Korea has an incredibly patriarchal society where calling out authority is seen as a big no-no. Working hours are intense. Time after work is frequently spent with your colleagues and boss because of strong social expectations, with it being normal to expect employees to stay out drinking until the boss is ready to go home. Pressure for students at school is so intense the government has had to make efforts to ban the ubiquitous “hagwon” private approval schooling. For many, not achieving a spot at the one specific university is considered failure. The economy is something almost literally out of a dystopia, controlled by a handful of “chaebols”, massive family-owned conglomerates like Samsung, Hyundai, LG, and Lotte.
assume South Korea. Calling it a dystopian shithole seems kinda unfair (especially when the only land border is with an actual dystopian nightmare of a country) but there is valid reason for the criticism.
The Korean peninsula can have two dystopian shitholes, as a treat.
Very different kinds of dystopias though. One’s basically taken right out of a cyberpunk novel with corporations ruling over an ostensibly-free populous. The other is an extreme authoritarian dictatorship where the government rules with an iron fist.
I’ve decided the best and most feasible thing I can do right now is thoroughly decoupling myself from the corporate consumerism world
I honestly think this is a very valid approach. Most people are imagining revolutions and a sudden and violent end to the capitalist class, but I’m more inclined towards the idea where people just change their life habbits so that they don’t depend on massive corporations. Step one stop using crap you don’t need, step two try to get the things you do need locally. If enough people do this, you might start seeing small communities that take care of a lot of stuff by themselves, and the moment you get a big enough community where at least some can live comfortably with little to no dependency from big corporations, things might change…
I think the biggest issue is that we don’t know what to do when we’re mad anymore. People think that being mad is all you need - that if you say you’re mad, things will change. I often see people get pissed about something, then calm down and move on, as if they somehow achieved something with their anger alone.
I’m hoping that there’s some pressure going on under the surface, and people will eventually reach a point where enough anger has built up that they can’t take it anymore and they really take action, but from what I’ve seen, people are so against the concept of acting upon angry feelings that I worry they’ll just hold it in until they die.
Action needs to be organized and have a clear purpose. Disorganized, unfocused action is easily overcome by the powerful. After decades of a very deliberate culture of individualism, we have a psychological mountain to climb in finding our way back to focused collective action. Not to mention that the mechanisms of such action (such as labor unions) have been gradually dismantled for half a century or more.
The culture of individualism will be extremely hard to move past at this point. Also, the wealthy won’t let it happen. If you think the police are only there to protect the wealthy’s investments, just wait till we actually get some traction on any sort of labor movement.
There needs to be mass protests, but be sure to obtain the proper permits, avoid infringing on private property, coordinate with your local authorities on proper times and acceptable public places that won’t interfere with commerce, avoid any sort of vandalism or violence because the message will be lost, and make sure not to alienate those who help your friends and neighbors to make a living.
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