Multipolarity will strike a huge blow on the US and probably launch popular movements across the country as living conditions further deteriorate. Now yes the sad thing is that countless good hearted liberals will die because of the militarized police and fascist militias, and that’s why I would advise to not take risks during that phase. However eventually state violence will be met with revolutionary violence.
The most propagandized ones you are talking about will all react in different ways, and you must keep in mind that all political movements at their base contain a non negligible amount of people who are here for the wrong reasons and blindly support what came to them first. That’s just how it is. Keep in mind that humans a especially unpredictable and that the US only survived until that point because of its hegemony.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂
How the f do “communist” even blatantly push neocolonialism and imperialism under the rug like this?? Even if it was true that working conditions were currently worse in China than in the imperial core, it would only mean that, thanks to the law of unequal exchange, the labor aristocracy can get more freebies from the government. When they say “capitalist countries” they conveniently ignore most of the third world where capitalism is unbearable and everything is just plain worse than in China. Such blatant ignorance to simply call Swenden and cie “capitalist” when everything positive about them is due to the looting of exploited countries.
This article is really good! Though I’m disappointed that further reading on this site lead me to this trash https://fight4loop.org/insular-organizing-bad-ideas
Yeah overall HP’s world building is a Jenga tower, it makes me lol when people say that it is a coherent fantasy world. Actually it’s double stupid because obviously the fact that it doesn’t make sense is part of why it’s successful. On one hand because it gives it a fairytale vibe, and most importantly because it pushes every good buttons in white privileged people’s mind by portraying a society that is nowhere different, just with floating things and old stuff’s aesthetics
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