I have been goosed a thousand times in my life, at least, because women and men are not as different as they want to believe. I’m cynical about relationships because too many friendships went south after their girlfriends/wives got grabby. I’ve lost jobs because I would not put out. Cashiers overcharge me for not taking their number the last time I was shopping there. I came home to a bottomless landlady masturbating on my fucking couch once. This shit happens. But that’s the American dream, to be the biggest victim in all the lands. Real heroes self-sacrifice, they do not request or demand it of others or wish it upon others. Help those who need it, not those who want it.
If ever I find critique in a given demographic, I try leaving room for exceptions to rules rather than make sweeping statements, but when I condemn this country I am only excepting those persons neither participating in or contributing to mass hysteria. It’s the cultural narrative of the states to see wars as good guys vs bad guys for example, rather than the reality of all nations fighting only for their own self-interests. Interpersonally it’s not at all dissimilar, individual needs glossed over, spit-shined into oblivion for the privileged sake of unifying with whatever branding’s list of demands. Similar to drug addicts, the commonality among the upper class is in their inability to foresee any consequences from having what they want. It’s not that they simply shun accountability or responsibility, they honestly do not understand any of it. Any assertion that a good form of Capitalism might exist is nothing but a rationalization of ego. Exploitation and extortion are fine as long as you’re the one deciding the winners and losers? History has proven, even the most watered-down, PC versions of history have proven, that Communism and Socialism are no less susceptible to greedy, gluttonous individuals wrecking the ship. One empowered ass is all it takes to prioritize ego before the vital needs of the rest. Let us demonetize everything under the sun instead, ourselves included.
Every system of government ends like a Capitalist state, power invariably corrupting its leaders into self-serving beasts without burden, prioritizing their own bias, fetishes and quirks over the life and death needs of their people. This applies to the hep alternatives to Democracy, too. I saw someone on twitter saying Holodomor was Nazi propaganda, a commenter adding famine survivors fought in the red army in WW2. If any survivors fought it was down to conscription, because the Russians lost MILLIONS of soldiers in WW2, after the Nazis turned on them. But modern Nazis saying the Holocaust never happened, that is only the rightwing variant to modern socialists saying Holodomor was propaganda. There is a wealth of photos and stories shared by the few who did survive the Russian government-imposed ethnic cleansing. Granted, the Russians did more to defeat the Nazis than did any other nation, contrary to every WW2 pop cultural bit produced here in the west, but as with any other superpower their own government has always presented the biggest threat to their own peoples. Made redundant by the predictability of gluttony. So patriotic we’ll let our neighbors die under the weight of medical bills because rich prick strangers hold more of an entitlement to unnecessary profit than their workers and customers do to a continued existence. Patriotic but not for fellow citizens is a shitty patriotism.
The closest thing to a revolution in the here and now is coming not from Black leftists or twitter or anything else but the non-voters, half the goddamn population, and co-opting that malaise to conform with whatever is so tone-deaf heads must be light-years up asses. Argue ownership or build a billion different bonfires and trust the same system burns. What undid OWS more than the coordinated arrests nationwide wasn’t that there were so many things being protested, but that each cook in the kitchen wanted to speak for the rest. Now, lethal force is for persons with no grounds for winning a moral argument. It belittles problems, manifesting voids that can never be refilled. As long as that is understood, preach on unifying and aligning forces for the orgy after the revolution. That’s the only time purity tests will be needed, as the reality behind reality is that we fight our own battles in this or any life. Then and only then do we have a thing to offer whatever collective. Or relationship.
A decade ago I tried making the lottery party a thing, where instead of elections all governmental positions would be filled as randomly as jury duty. I’d wanted to convey that society prevents all of us from being made equal, in fact society depends on discrepancy. Just imagine your craziest ex abruptly made mayor, governor or President for some years of obligatory public service, work history be damned. Chains being no stronger than their weakest links means that this nation is no better than the craziest person you’ve ever encountered. However, anyone to have never pursued a position of authority over others in a setting structured exclusively for rationalizing loss of life for profit has more of a moral code than Trump and Biden and Netanyahu combined. There’s only one commandment I’ve not broken though so will show myself the door.