I tried listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast where he had some young environmentalist on and the vibe I got from him is pure hopelessness. He more or less exists in the same reality as us but sees absolutely no possibility of things ever changing.
The entire time he was gone he was trying to get the federal government to pay for 9/11 first responders medical bills and was denied every time.
If you consider him being gen x and developing his political consciousness in the end of history and weatching everything slowly degrade then rapidly degrade that perspective is easy to imagine
Yeah. I suspect he’s, at one point, come to the conclusion that a revolution is the only way but then he was like ‘nah, we’d totally lose that’. The young environmentalist he was talking to kept pointing out all of the things we need to do are contrary to the interest of capital so we need to combat them. His response was something like ‘We literally don’t have time to overthrow the capitalists, so we have to negotiate on their terms.’ The problem with that is they have absolutely no reason to negotiate with us unless we can threaten them in any way.
I tried listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast where he had some young environmentalist on and the vibe I got from him is pure hopelessness. He more or less exists in the same reality as us but sees absolutely no possibility of things ever changing.
The entire time he was gone he was trying to get the federal government to pay for 9/11 first responders medical bills and was denied every time.
If you consider him being gen x and developing his political consciousness in the end of history and weatching everything slowly degrade then rapidly degrade that perspective is easy to imagine
Yeah. I suspect he’s, at one point, come to the conclusion that a revolution is the only way but then he was like ‘nah, we’d totally lose that’. The young environmentalist he was talking to kept pointing out all of the things we need to do are contrary to the interest of capital so we need to combat them. His response was something like ‘We literally don’t have time to overthrow the capitalists, so we have to negotiate on their terms.’ The problem with that is they have absolutely no reason to negotiate with us unless we can threaten them in any way.