silent_water [she/her]

  • 3 Posts
  • 6 Comments
Joined 4 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 26th, 2021

help-circle






  • to add to this, how many of us living in the west remember our “aww shit” moment where the justifications for liberalism fell apart in our own minds and we had to contend with reality and the consequences of ideological rationalization? I think we overcorrect and assume that what held us to such flimsy dissonance must have been powerful, when the reality is that people simply hate to confront dissonance when doing so means taking a stand against all the power in the world. it’s just fear, at least with most of the honest radlibs. (this is a larger group than people realize. the capitalists have noticed this and began marketing to them - cf the sudden proliferation of “anticapitalist” big budget productions).

    the wider class… false consciousness and short-term self-interest prevail and it’s why any base of power of power for the western left begins and ends with the dispossessed.