Nukes will be used again one day. And it will not be pretty.
No amount of peaceful protests and organizing peacefully will result in any amount of meaningful change. The only way to get this rat fucked world to be not ratfucked is to fix it by force in a very violent and bloody way.
Why do you think the super wealthy are so keen on robots and AI? When even the police officers can’t “have had enough” there is no rebellion possible, ever again.
This. Our President (allegedly) playing “catch me if you can”
Capitalism at its core.
Most people are complete idiots and will rather burn the world for a bigger flatscreen TV than to save it for their children.
- The most meaningful reforms, like large-scale climate action, won’t happen until citizens present a credible threat to the owning class’s dominance, making reform the appealing compromise.
- The owning class, at least a large section of it, along with loyal reactionaries will wage violent open war before ceding power leftward. They have the option to decide if a peaceful road forward exists, and historically, then tend to mass murder citizens instead.
It’s all getting worse and I can’t see any way to stop it.
Well, not all of it but many parts that will unfortunately affect me.
Capitalism made almost everything the same big pile of shit. No matter the language and culture, in the end, it’s the same shit.
Evil is inherent to the world. All light casts a shadow.
I think there’s not that much actual evil, as in pure intent to inflict pain and suffering. There is a lot of focus on short term, personal gain though. Sounds the same, but the latter has a purpose and can be controlled using that purpose.
I think evil is an underlayment, not mere will to harm, but the force that moves towards destruction. The distinction of actual evil against some psudo-evil is false, a way that it hides itself. When we deny it it’s because we fear its nearness, as we should, because it is even within us, and good doesn’t always win.
But OP was asking for cynical takes.
Talking to Normal students in high school and in university in Australia (considered to be an imperial core country). I realised these people just really don’t give a fuck.
Most people don’t want to gain class consciousness, they think the current system is the best they can ever have and they wouldn’t want to risk it. Or they just refuse to reconise capitalism as the root problem.
Most people are too buzy with what ever that is happening near them that tragedy someone else are suffering on the other side of the world is just not important enough for them to take any action to try and change it.
Unless capitalism serious affects their ability to feed themselves or ablity to distract them from their misery (religion, social media, hobby etc), they won’t be bothered to do anything.
Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.
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Humans are the cause of almost every problem on the planet and wont and don’t deserve to survive the great filter. The universe is better off without us.
That UN Climate Change but-don’t-touch-our-oil-business conference a few days ago.
Catharsis. As on the individual level of “get it out of the system”, the angst and anger also needs to be let out in societal level. Seeing as where the world is heading, the Pandora’s box has already opened and there is no way of putting back the angry genie. It will become worse before it gets better.
If I had access to all of the televisions and radios in Imperial America, I would get somebody famous like Zohran Mamdani to read a paper detailing how the upper classes not only facilitated the rise of Fascism in Europe, but also profited from the Axis’s war crimes and survived the twentieth century almost completely unpunished. At the end, he would say something like ‘As I speak, hundreds of thousands of workers are going to seek and despoil the upper classes with the understanding that there is no other way to make them pay for their crimes, and that this course of action is far more preferable to leaving them unpunished.’
I suspect that few people, if any, would take action.
That this fits . . .
What’s your most cynical opinion about the world?
The Earth will, eventually, long after we’re all gone, be incinerated by the sun. If life co-exists elsewhere in the universe, I suspect it will be too distant to have much impact on us nor them. So I believe that humanity will inevitably have no meaningful legacy in the long term. And I also believe there is no objective meaning to existence, it’s just a neat little quirk of chaos.That doesn’t imply I think nothing is meaningful, it doesn’t take long to notice I care deeply about people and what we do. But, ultimately, meaning is temporary and subjective. (I haven’t explored much of formal philosophy but I’ve heard my perspective aligns with absurdism or existentialism)edit: I didn’t realize this isn’t actually cynicism (a prudent distrust), but more nihlism (a distrust upon belief in meaning)
