NeilBru

joined 11 months ago
[–] NeilBru 2 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

No masters, no slaves. "Boy".

[–] NeilBru 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (19 children)

A common person in the contemporary era is assailed by many threats to their autonomy: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged "collectivists", who we'll discuss here.

Extreme authoritarian "leftists", A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are also threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violent as their authoritarian competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

Why?

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an "enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration" to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party” will, and repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death of the mind, body, and community. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. And like all pigs, they will squeal when things don't go their way.

Never ever trust anyone or any group that says "I am/we're in charge, fovever".

[–] NeilBru -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)
[–] NeilBru 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The world is largely full of masochists ruled by sadists.

Never underestimate people's desire for servility in the name of stability.

The vast majority of people have an exceedingly high tolerance for their own subjugation if it means they don't have to think or act to avoid pain or responsibility.

Okay, I admit that I basically said the same thing 3 times with different wording. Personally, I just hope that I'm not as docile as I fear that I am.

[–] NeilBru 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm going to be flogged for saying this as well, but I don't understand why you're being down-voted.

I lost a lot of money being furloughed and was on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, and many old friends of my father in India died in that global cluster-fuck. Granted, there were many environmental benefits for our ailing biosphere, and I found many moments of peaceful solace as a result of not having to be in public, but average people were eviscerated by that virus on many levels.

I agree: despite the inevitability of another one, to wish for another pandemic is, at best, an idiotic, selfish, and angsty teenage opinion. Along with the obvious health risks, people now have even less trust in institutional health and scientific organizations, leading me to predict that the next one will be even worse because people refuse to think and learn nothing from the past.

Even worse, people regard their unbridled skepticism of expert opinion, research, and their own scientific ignorance as a virtue. We experienced the Dunning-Kruger effect at a global scale and will do so again because the average person despises humility and thinks they know everything about anything.

Kind of like a bunch of bratty teenagers.

[–] NeilBru 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

~~deuce~~ douche

[–] NeilBru 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah yes, "insert'Muh'MemeLanguageHere" argument/excuse that we all heard a bajillion times

[–] NeilBru 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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