Recently I am more and more angry with Presidents acting like dictators, billionaires who wreck the planet in front of our eyes and another two books full..
I've been told to "'not worry about things you cannot control" over and over
But I cannot make peace with that, and my reply is:
"No, I keep worrying and fighting until I am in a way of control so I can do something about it"
The feeling of "no control" is what they want so they can get away with everything
@stux i keep thinking more and more about how the actions of a few hundred human beings are something we, the other eight billion folks on the planet, "have no control" over
and how much that makes it sound like folks see these people as gods
@matildalove @stux They are more dependent on the infrastructure than the rest of us, by a huge multiple. They use more fuel, power, and labor than the normal person by a factor of 10 to 1000.
If society collapses, well then they are made out of meat like everyone else.
So the argument that the elite are engineering a collapse makes no sense. Elites don't fare well in a true collapse. And most of them do NOT plan well. French and Russian revolutions being obvious examples.
@matildalove @mike805 Klein and Taylor’s article on “end times fascism” describes how the likes of Musk, Thiel, and Bannon are trying to end the ruling class’s losing streak. Unlike aristocrats past, their outlook is explicitly apocalyptic, and not just in the sense of foreseeing physical catastrophe. They have a (pseudo-)religious sense that they’ll be revealed to be the worthy ones, precisely by escaping it. So, they *need* the world to end.
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