glad we agree… there is much to be hopeful for (with caveats).
I’m afraid as well, frankly I don’t even think it’s out of the question most of us here on Hexbear (as presumably, many live in the west) will find ourselves in concentration camps in due time. I’m afraid because I also don’t think it’s out of the question that that will happen to my ethnic group, or race, or other communities I’m part of (LGBT, technically being an immigrant as my family moved to the west when I was a kid, etc). I’m afraid because even if such extremes don’t come to pass (fingers crossed) the material conditions and fascism here will only get worse and worse, because that is the structure of the western regimes. Shit will get really bad. And I think the western regimes’ means of cracking down on dissent are such that revolution- while not “doomed to fail” (as by the nature of the system, it only further intensifies the need for change upon the masses, upon even those cogs within the system and all those with even a sliver of remaining human decency, etc) will be a messy and difficult process, more so than perhaps ever before. (IMO most people would be better served and also serve the cause better by fleeing the west altogether and contributing to the global majority that is increasingly forced together to resist its imperialism).
But humanity will win, perhaps if we’re optimistic even the west will come to terms without being forced to- with MAD on the table I do think it is genuinely a possibility (if the western capitalists have the sense to purge all the neocons from their number). And even here in the west, for all that things are spiraling and fast and there is little hope in sight, the undercurrent of humanity lives on and I know we all see it (as alienating and wretched as our societies are otherwise), and the roots of progress and understanding are being built which the imperialists will never be able to fully uproot (though they might try, and here in the west they might even succeed if they resort to extreme, pyrrhic measures)
It’s hard to remember that other places exist while living in one that’s going to hell.
I should remember that Burgerland isn’t the whole world; after all, even just moving out of California and to the northeast has been a drastic improvement when it comes to day to day interactions with people. The bazinga factor is near zero except the occassional ZYBERTRUKKK that for some reason wanders through my neck of the woods.
I’m afraid as well, frankly I don’t even think it’s out of the question most of us here on Hexbear (as presumably, many live in the west) will find ourselves in concentration camps in due time. I’m afraid because I also don’t think it’s out of the question that that will happen to my ethnic group, or race, or other communities I’m part of (LGBT, technically being an immigrant as my family moved to the west when I was a kid, etc). I’m afraid because even if such extremes don’t come to pass (fingers crossed) the material conditions and fascism here will only get worse and worse, because that is the structure of the western regimes. Shit will get really bad. And I think the western regimes’ means of cracking down on dissent are such that revolution- while not “doomed to fail” (as by the nature of the system, it only further intensifies the need for change upon the masses, upon even those cogs within the system and all those with even a sliver of remaining human decency, etc) will be a messy and difficult process, more so than perhaps ever before. (IMO most people would be better served and also serve the cause better by fleeing the west altogether and contributing to the global majority that is increasingly forced together to resist its imperialism).
But humanity will win, perhaps if we’re optimistic even the west will come to terms without being forced to- with MAD on the table I do think it is genuinely a possibility (if the western capitalists have the sense to purge all the neocons from their number). And even here in the west, for all that things are spiraling and fast and there is little hope in sight, the undercurrent of humanity lives on and I know we all see it (as alienating and wretched as our societies are otherwise), and the roots of progress and understanding are being built which the imperialists will never be able to fully uproot (though they might try, and here in the west they might even succeed if they resort to extreme, pyrrhic measures)
It’s hard to remember that other places exist while living in one that’s going to hell.
I should remember that Burgerland isn’t the whole world; after all, even just moving out of California and to the northeast has been a drastic improvement when it comes to day to day interactions with people. The bazinga factor is near zero except the occassional ZYBERTRUKKK that for some reason wanders through my neck of the woods.