sometimes the sense of helplessness that comes from watching us repeat the history that everyone abhors and ignores makes me wish that i was a moderate so that i can fool myself into believing that voting for one genocider was better than voter for another genocider.

i also wonder if my existence at the intersection of several vulnerable communities would eventually dispel that world view anyways if i were a moderate since there are so many brown, immigrant, gay, autistic conservatives.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm honestly just sitting here wondering when the main bulk of any populace will realize it is always more beneficial to a society to help each other than it is to recreate the jungle of competition and struggles from which we came. It feels like we have forgotten that all of this was about making life easier and now endlessly chase a goal that can never be satisfied (profit).

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wondering when the main bulk of any populace will realize it is always more beneficial to a society to help each other than it is to recreate the jungle of competition and struggles from which we came.

It isn't necessarily about ideas, but course of development. We live in the era of Imperialism, ie large Monopoly and Financial Capital domination of the Global South from the Global North. The weakest links break, and Imperialism weakens. It's a matter of time.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s a matter of time.

i wish that timescale wasn't in the centuries.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably won't be at the rate we are going from this point on.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

if you're referring to climate change and i would expect that it would cause the 4th near human extinction event at a minimum; so there's a chance humanity will survive and there will be some sort of a society if it does.

perhaps since we've exhausted most of the easily accessible sources of energy; maybe the next society won't be able to advance past the next stone age on-wards to develop the industrial or technological capabilities that enable such absurd disparities in wealth they can afford to bend the entire world to their will for a genocide; rending 99% of the world helpless as they can do nothing but witness palestinians culled into numbers small enough that isreal no longer considers them a threat.