Capitalism mythologizes ‘human nature’ as selfish and competitive to justify exploitation. It calls mutual aid ‘primitive,’ forgetting it was mutual aid that birthed civilization. Cooperation, not profit, built the world they now sell back to us.

I think the smart people ARE worried but there is very very little we can do about it, because the stupid people are not interested in learning anything.

i can’t (can) believe we’re living through climate disaster and weather just isn’t normal most places anymore

Sometimes I can't believe we built this. Like, humans had the chance to live with the Earth, grow food, eat fruits, sit by the beach, take care of each other. And instead we invented rent, debt, jobs that drain us, and systems that reward destruction. It never had to be this way.

thinking about how growing up we were repeatedly taught how to decipher credible sources online and now people just cite the google ai summary that may or may not be true for everything.

I do NOT deplore the violence on both sides. I support the armed struggle for liberation waged by a people whose choice is to fight or be disposed and exterminated.

My god I couldn’t care less how many Israeli scholars or genocide experts or academics now “sadly” admit Israel is committing genocide. Their opinion is not the benchmark. Palestinians told us from the start. Stop defaulting to the perpetrators for guidance.

what a weird time we live in, you scroll on your phone and see oppression in the palm of your hand yet your hands are powerless to stop it

I get the impression when I talk to the people I know and they avoid all serious topics like covid, climate change, politics or capitalism that they feel like they are not really part of this world but just an audience member to it. Like as if they are perpetually a tourist.

The problem isn’t the science. It clearly shows that Covid is damaging. It isn’t too complicated to figure out, it isn’t like it’s controversial. It’s that you won’t look at it because you don’t want to know what it says. It isn’t the science, it’s you.

Honestly, if you think protecting yourself from a virus is "living in fear", then so be it. Just know that I, someone who is Covid-aware, doesn't care what you think. Let's call a spade a spade: you are a coward in denial who is fearfully clinging to an expired reality.

Likewise, the biodiversity and ecological crisis, is caused by destroying natural habitat, and polluting the natural world. To stop it, we need to stop doing that. Again, the richest and most powerful, refuse to consider it, because they massively profit from those processes.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 50s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone" Michael Okuda How quick we forget

Everyone tells me “AI is the future” but I don’t think technologies that make us less attentive and less conscientious, that weaken cognition and threaten to destroy education, that kill the very impulse to read, learn and study, can be called “progress” in any meaningful sense.

Humans were literally so blessed to be on a planet filled with abundant natural resources, nature, trees, fruit and sunshine but no, we chose debt, capitalism and war.

the grotesque banality of going about daily life during a slow-motion civilizational collapse

If life is just going to be pandemics, eugenics, fascism, humans as nothing more than vessels to extract labor from and brainwash for consumerism before disposing of them via pricing them out of healthcare after rendering them chronically ill, what's the fucking point?

Pandemics are inextricably intertwined with the climate crisis bc as ecosystems collapse & conditions rapidly change, there is ample opportunity for pathogens to flourish. The same machine that refuses to stop abusing Earth is behind the denial, bc they want to keep extracting

The ruling class never told you to mask, it was public health authorities with no real power and disabled people. The ruling class told you to take them off. They wanted you to spend money like normal, they wanted you to take on the cost of repeated infections, and you complied.