There hasn’t been that much attention paid to it, not in my experience, but the way we’re shaped to operate subconsciously is just as important as our conscious self.
Imperialist culture is built on the remnants of trauma it inflicts upon it’s subjects. This trauma festers within imperialist societies and those within it’s control. It influences the development of what’s called “superstructure” which in turn produces maladaptive individuals and collectives that these individuals form.
There’s a lack of trust, if there’s a profit motive to exploit, someone is going to do it, pretty much everyone knows this, even if they don’t think about it. Rituals are invented to sus out the impostor among us, there’s a constant state of paranoia, because inevitably, those rituals fail, there is no 100% accurate lie detector test, there is no mind reading device, so the only option that remains is blackmail and threats, mutually self assured destruction.
It’s important to examine ourselves and our communities to see if we’ve been effected by this, how has it happened, what can be done to prevent further influence and how to influence things for the better.
You can disagree with me and I don’t mind to have a disagreement, but you can’t just completely dismiss this, but you have to admit that nobody actually knows how to do socialism, not on anything close to a global scale, if anyone did we’d have achieved it already. Any effort out there is either incomplete or ended in failure. There has not been a single success story so far and it’s arrogant to pretend like anyone knows best.
can you explain what you mean by “nobody actually knows how to to do socialism”? what about china, cuba, vietnam, DPRK, etc
and, what exactly does that have to do with our collective consciousness/subconsciousness under capitalism?
To put it really bluntly: Western society is founded on Imperialism and mass sacrificial murder killings.
It’s important to examine how this effects their way of life, simply flipping the board and killing all the bad guys is not going to resolve the contradictions, not change the “essence” of their society.
Real reparations are done by those which accept that they’re monsters and teach their children to be better, not those who try to be good at a gunpoint and through use of threats. This doesn’t mean you have to turn into a naive-do gooder, but frankly I’m almost out of hope on the re-educational front. Everywhere I go it’s the same people with different costumes. There’s more to socialism than just switching out out targets of treatment.
Fortunately I have seen people who try to change it, but it definitely won’t happen anytime soon it seems. There’s still a very real threat that global fascism will win. This reality is too taxing to face on, real change would require doing a lot of unfun, challenging and painful things. But when people are dying every day and nobody seems to care in addressing these problems, toxic unhealthy behaviors are tolerated everywhere, on every major and most minor offline/online platforms. What choice do I have left besides trying to destroy things like free speech? I once used to envy usa, for how much they are free to talk about, now I see it as an obstacle in and of itself. I honestly can’t think of anything worse happening within the next 10 years than a socialist being elected in USA and then they proceed to keep bombing the world and go to war with China, but it could happen.