ana veronica
the greatest trick the centrists ever pulled was convincing people that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" was about sitting on your ass until things magically got better, and not about the inevitable success of active participatory struggle
Jun 1 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadGiles EdwardsJun 1

@ana Oh, definitely.

Unless you're actively bending the arc that way, it won't go. It's a long-term—probably eternal—project, but you gotta put in the effort.

Show threadNochem ben ShlomoJun 1

@ana

The liberals and centrists have adopted a distorted version of Marxism, thinking that history writes itself, without active participation by us. In the
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx wrote:

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living"

Show threadjonathankoren™Jun 1
@ana not just that, but morality was a rachet. It could never go back.
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 1
@ana It bends towards greed.
Show threadAuthor Andrew Massie 🏴Jun 1
@ana If you want the moral arc of the universe to do anything, you have to bend it
Show threadZJun 1
@ana some of them are also into "you do the dirty work for us" too
Show threadLeonard RitterJun 1
@ana "we're merely waiting until they have fully automated gas chambers, for a greater emotional impact when we liberate it"
Show threadMx. Aria StewartJun 2

@ana A microsff story I read a while ago:

"It will get worse before it gets better?" said the fortune teller.

"Is there nothing we can do?"

"You're why it gets better."

Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 3

@ana @DavidM_yeg It lends itself well to the Just World Hypothesis, doesn't it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy

Just-world fallacy - Wikipedia