It seems like nobody is willing here in the US to actually throw themselves into a revolt or meaningful change because our conditions are just good enough.
I still see everyone around me going for the best social status, the best job, the best car, the biggest house, and completely ignoring all the major flashing red lights.
I feel like a crazy person, like one of those people that’s missing the point. I feel surrounded by lunatics and typically that means you’re the crazy one but I just know I can’t be in this situation, it makes no sense.
Why is it like this? Why do I feel surrounded by NPCs? I can’t connect to pretty much anyone here. It all seems so trivial.
I don’t want to sound elitist or anything I just can’t see how people still don’t see the full picture
What to do?
Depends what you mean, but I don’t think people should be willing to throw themselves into a revolt. First they need to ‘organize, organize, organize’, in the words of Kwame Ture.
They should want meaningful change, but they won’t for as long as the majority is in the labour aristocracy and benefits so much from imperialism. Use your effort for something more productive. Bring class consciousness to those who are ready for it and want change. I can’t remember the exact quote, but Lenin said, to paraphrase: ‘Haters gonna hate; better fewer but better.’
In a way, it doesn’t really matter. I’m a little nihilistic with this kind of thing: it will take a long time, but the US cannot survive it’s own contradictions. No empire can. It’s just a matter of time and while people in the US could hasten it’s dissolution, nobody in the US can prevent it, whether individuals see and care about the flashing red lights or not. It doesn’t matter much because none of us can do anything alone.
The most important things are getting experience organizing, creating communities of care, and supporting the most oppressed peoples, because they already have it a lot worse and are going to get it a lot worse until meaningful change arrives. That means being ready to argue, etc, against imperialism and in favour of neocolonial subjects outside the US, even when the ‘radical orgs’ argue for a greater slice of the imperial profits. Within the US (looking from the outside at least), that seems to be humbly joining the Indigenous struggle and the struggle against the military-prison industrial complex. The former, especially, is organized, alive, and kicking.
That is kind of what I mean. I don’t mean just throw yourself into a suicide mission or anything like that. I just mean like, it doesn’t even seem like those in the US want to organize. They won’t even start the process of revolution. I don’t really understand how even those in the labor aristocracy don’t want something to change though. Sure, we import exploited labor’s value here and have better circumstances, but they still aren’t that great. Those who make a good living are still chained to the grind, still forced into jobs they often don’t like, still living in a drab, capitalist hellhole. Is it a fear of what they have to lose?
I feel like it does matter though. It will affect the rest of the world for a very long time. It isn’t like the 20th century revolutions anymore; we have an existential time limit and it is getting very close to being too late to act. Yes, the US will collapse on it’s own due to its contradictions, but if it lives for another 50 years, that fucks the planet and the rest of the world.
That’s what I am saying, it’s so sad to see people not willing to unite and make changes.
I don’t know, my head feels like it has a tornado inside. So many things I don’t know or understand. So much passion and desire to change something. I hate being young and lacking experience lol
Just try to reach out to the oppressed and work together on a project. You can claim you are starting a non profit which you might be. You can describe creating a worker owned co-op as another way to get rich while hiring disenfranchised people and call it the libertarian term “Decentralized Autonomous Organization”. Start a book club with not so obviously marxist books and then slowly get people into marx. Maybe explain that Marx had interesting ideas and reading volumes 1-3 together can help you found your own hedge fund.