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Profiteers talk about capitalism—a life of drudgery wasted producing endless crap to maximize the profits of an undeserving elite—in glowing terms. Let’s laugh at those lies and talk about truth and reality. With joy!
So, it’s beginning to seep in that our species is killing itself by producing mountains of useless crap (commodities and luxuries), a process that emits gigatons of CO2 and renders the Earth nearly uninhabitable.
It’s getting harder to put lipstick on the pig of modern civilization. Whether it’s capitalism, dictatorship or communism, people work hard every day in a dismal abdication of the joy of living—they work the best days, years, decades of their life for elites. This is an abomination.
But nobody says this. They simply see this as necessary, as unquestionable or—at minimum—unavoidable. But it’s completely avoidable. These worldwide systems of exploitation and waste and stupidity cannot exist without our active cooperation. They are fragile systems and they need us.
People can see the essential connection between a dying Earth (and it’s a homicide) and the various economic and political systems everywhere—all of which demeans human life in favor of service to elites.
