Fascists start with the minorities within minorities, the smallest groups they can, to test the waters, get the smallest pushback, boil the societal frog, and normalize those people going away. Itās an easier and more manageable proposition for the Fascists to send LGBTQ to the gas chambers a letter at a time as the other letters hunch their heads hoping not to be noticed than have to fight a unified LGBTQ, for example.
Itās what the āFirst they came for the socialistsā poem is about. If you donāt defend the lives of those unlike you, unless you have blonde hair, blue eyes, and tow every single ideological line of ānormality,ā theyāll get to you eventually(unless youāre very wealthy, theyāll get a pass as always no matter what, donāt worry), and as they force you on the train Tesla CyberSwastiBus, youāll remember all the people you were fine with suffering the same fate when it wasnt you, no longer there to appeal to in solidarity to save your selfish, solely self-interested ass.
Thatās what I hate about capitalism even before its inevitable end stage of fascism, its faustian appeal to the darkest part of our nature: ārational self-interest,ā the rebranding and rehabbing of being a selfish antisocial fuck into somehow being virtuous. Itās the opposite. It is the very bedrock of being a shitty person and the underlying cause of most human suffering, "sure, but whatās in it for meeeeeeee?"
It boggles my mind how so many donāt/canāt/refuse to see how this foundational requirement of capitalism, the nurturing of selfishness as virtue and not profound character defect worthy of scorn, will always lead society to mass dehumanization of others. How else can you be comfortable eating a feast on a personal mega yacht while children are denied school lunches and human beings die under our freeways? āWell, Iām better than them, theyāre beneath meeeeeeee after all so they deserve their suffering and I deserve all their portions.ā
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Fascists start with the minorities within minorities, the smallest groups they can, to test the waters, get the smallest pushback, boil the societal frog, and normalize those people going away. Itās an easier and more manageable proposition for the Fascists to send LGBTQ to the gas chambers a letter at a time as the other letters hunch their heads hoping not to be noticed than have to fight a unified LGBTQ, for example.
Itās what the āFirst they came for the socialistsā poem is about. If you donāt defend the lives of those unlike you, unless you have blonde hair, blue eyes, and tow every single ideological line of ānormality,ā theyāll get to you eventually(unless youāre very wealthy, theyāll get a pass as always no matter what, donāt worry), and as they force you on the
trainTesla CyberSwastiBus, youāll remember all the people you were fine with suffering the same fate when it wasnt you, no longer there to appeal to in solidarity to save your selfish, solely self-interested ass.Thatās what I hate about capitalism even before its inevitable end stage of fascism, its faustian appeal to the darkest part of our nature: ārational self-interest,ā the rebranding and rehabbing of being a selfish antisocial fuck into somehow being virtuous. Itās the opposite. It is the very bedrock of being a shitty person and the underlying cause of most human suffering, "sure, but whatās in it for meeeeeeee?"
It boggles my mind how so many donāt/canāt/refuse to see how this foundational requirement of capitalism, the nurturing of selfishness as virtue and not profound character defect worthy of scorn, will always lead society to mass dehumanization of others. How else can you be comfortable eating a feast on a personal mega yacht while children are denied school lunches and human beings die under our freeways? āWell, Iām better than them, theyāre beneath meeeeeeee after all so they deserve their suffering and I deserve all their portions.ā