Most of us, particularly men, feel unfulfilled and unhappy. There is no purpose to it all. We won’t be able to afford a house, we will never live in a functioning community based on mutual aid and respect, we will never explore, nor have meaningful adventures, having children is a moral dilemma. We have no agency, no control over our own lives. And it’s all very boring.
These are the perfect ingredients for radicalization.
I’ve undergone the process myself, slowly turning from a liberal into an anarchist. But whereas my ideology is based on freedom, mutual aid, diversity, a sustainable coexistence with nature, and a longing for happiness, most others revert to the most basic of instincts:
Hate is spreading. The majority of people actually want war.
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This is a very scare monger-y article.
most others revert to the most basic of instincts: Hate is spreading. The majority of people actually want war.
Citation needed. The majority want war? I very much doubt that. There will always be some people pushing for war for either ideological or financial reasons, but I very much doubt it’s the majority.
Case in point: Israel. Before this recent escalation of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, Israel was more divided than ever. Even the most loyal Western allies began asking questions about the new ultra-far-right government’s policies. Millions took to the streets to protest the systematic undermining of democratic principles. But look at them now. All united and loving. All in league against a common, brown-skinned enemy. The government has never been safer, democracy not so important anymore.
Are they perfectly united?, it certainly doesn’t seem it.
Same in Ukraine: forgotten are the rampant corruption, the nepotism, and the strong fascist tendencies.
Even the Anarchists fight for Ukraine. Their government certainly faces a large issue with corruption, but If they fall to Russia, it’s a guarantee things WON’T improve.
as the working class loses and loses,
Unions are coming back in a big way, and are already getting some decent wins for the working class, to paint it as all bad is weighting the negative much higher than the positive.
Ray Dalio recently claimed that the risk of a world war that includes the US and China has now risen to 50%. “In my opinion, this war has a high risk of leading to several other conflicts of different types in a number of places, and it is likely to have harmful effects that will extend beyond those in Israel and Gaza,” he said. “Primarily for those reasons, it appears to me that the odds of transitioning from the contained conflicts to a more uncontained hot world war that includes the major powers have risen from 35% to about 50% over the last two years.”
He puts this in the article, and then says:
I’m not sure why we should trust a billionaire investor and hedge fund manager, but I guess the fact that it lies in his interest that the status quo continue and he not be eaten, makes this all the more worrying.
Why put in that fearmongering statistic just to immediately say he’s not sure why we should trust him? Because we shouldn’t, he IS just some billionaire investor, and doesn’t have any sort of special insight to war than any other person has, he just pulled those numbers out of his bum.
IMO, I think his argument is built on his own bias of cynicism and unfounded assumptions. But that’s just my 2 cents.
Thanks for this. I left immediately after I read “NATO expansionism” as the chief reason for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They can fuck all the way off with that.