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if i develop it right i could make the link with how people are likely to vote but there are still some flaws to the argument.
i think the masses are definitely more prone to the "let's burn this shit down argument" than "let's try to pretend their are merits to tory policy". far more.
i think everyone massively underestimates the anger there is. there is a tremendous effort in the media to trap our thinking in a reality wherein there can only be subjective individual truth which is apparently so strong and important as to override material conditions. bullshit of course.
i'm very optimistic because there is a material truth to how people are being exploited under capitalism and no amount of suppression will ever take that away. you unlock that and you show it to people and they aren't going to go back to their previous ways of thinking or behaving.
you can be sold a false sense of optimism which will burn you out, or you can get hyper excited about the prescription nihilism that is the dominant expression of culture now. either way there's no escaping the truth that we are coming to the end of capitalism.
man i love life now, i love the oppurtunities to think about this and develop theories and read and imagine a future and i love how we are being driven to a point were the creation of a new social movement is the only way to actually survive. pessismistic i am not. making dire forecasts about how people will behave under a tory government is not what i see as useful. i only see this forecast as the excuse people use to vote tory and remain inactive and resigned to their reality.
when people stop focusing on developing an individual liberalism in the space of a false interiority that is not there but only an illusion of our forced isolation as consumers then they will stop overestimating the conservatism of the masses. because the actions of the masses only appear as a conservative average because its a space wherein my individualism is impotent and absent. so i mistake it as "everyone must be so conservative deep down except me and my beautiful soul" when it's really - everyone is acting so conservative because they are only concerned with preserving their cherished individualism and beautiful liberal soul. this soul is fed on a load of narcissism about what my self would potentially do in situations it will never have any power in. you get arm chair generals and noone doing anything in the community.
and in a way this is useful because you're individualism acts as a tool to navigate commodity society and select relevant information and open up new ways of thinking to you. so it is in some sense very useful. but its a by product of a time, the 90's, when it really did seem like we would have capitalism forever and there could be no alternative. that time is long gone but none of us can really let go of it.
people are not conservative because conservatism is wrong and its a lie. it doesn't work. its an error in thinking and a mistaken worldview. it arising from fear and guilt and results in some of our worst interpretations of the world. the masses aren't right wing because it is not in their interests to be so! it's not in their interests to stick with capitalism, to fight its wars and waste their lives being exploited as labour to keep things going smoothly for the ruling elite.
the price for sticking with it now, seems to be the entitlement/sentence that you manage your own suicide. that's all it really offers us now, that and a now unproductive and dying reality system that's of little use to us.
there isn't really much of an anti capitalism that can feed/clothe/allow you to survive better yet, but there will be. there will have to be. we get to start planning for it. what a beautiful oppurtunity!
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