That’s the right direction but it needs to make sure that the wages stay the same, otherwise everything becomes a part-time job and people are forced to find an additional job to get to their original earnings.
Either way, we need Universal Basic Income
Generally speaking, that might only be true in a system based on scarcity, competition, monetary profit, classes where enough of the upper class care more about maintaining their position of power and profit while using divide-and-conquer to keep the people below subdued and hating each other.
Reading the bible, at least the old testament, it’s pretty obvious that the commandments generally apply only towards your fellow kin (that is, another devout person of the religion). Everybody else is usually fair game (for example, during war with an outside tribe you could [should] do whatever - murder, rape, kidnap, steal, etc.)
They represent the bottom/extreme evil side, not the average. Human nature is a full spectrum of possible good behaviors and bad behaviors. People are mirrors, they reflect their environment, the conditions and ideas that they’ve been exposed to. They are shaped and limited by the overall systems that they are living under, that they did not choose/built themselves.
they want to keep you riled up thinking someone is right around the corner waiting to get you
missing teenage girl posts
It’s tragically ironic, because they (the people at the top) could be seen as the biggest threat in these cases, with their system of sex trafficking/rape islands/etc.
COINTELPRO never went away
I doubt it but I hope it somehow signifies a lasting slowing down of imperialism, of protecting the interests/profits of foreign corporations over local populations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_involvement_in_the_Iraq_War
After they had gotten ahead and were in charge
Chiming in that I do agree with this specific sentiment. I think the issue with your overall statement is that it seems to imply that all boomers did this, while it only applies to the ones that got ahead. The system we’ve been living in for ages has been creating and rewarding cutthroat psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies - so it absolutely makes sense that the people that rose up in the economic ladder abused their position accordingly.
What’s needed is a program that analyzes and pinpoints the conditions that create violent behavior and uproots them (for example, living in scarcity with no economic security and feeling marginalized, having no empathetic communal support system, etc.)
(cc: James Gilligan)
This is heartbreaking. The psychopaths at the top are actively sacrificing human lives. Cutting back programs like FEMA/disaster aid.
The population. This theoretical organization would need to be safe guarded enough that the people would believe they can be frank in expressing their wants without being afraid of repercussions from their regime or external forces. (so for example, if the people say they want socialism, with things like cooperatives and local gardens, then the people from the international organization would help them achieve that)
The problem is that the people at the top don’t want informed citizens. There should be a citizenry(?) class through 3 years of high school, and there should be a sort of public access channel (including online) that disseminates all relevant political information (local and general).
Iranian people need to overwhelmingly decide to do it
The issue with this is that it’s terrifying for the vast majority of people to try and resist a murderous autocratic regime, especially when you’re not sure if enough other people in your vicinity will (successfully) have your back to make sure that you’re not kidnapped and tortured or shot right in the street.
Ideally, we should have an international nonviolent organization that could arrive wherever needed to help a population get out of the shackles (with no strings attached)
In my wild dreams I see them carrying out a positive version of the Business Plot
I totally understand him, and I don’t know his policies, but wouldn’t it be great if the name Adolf Hitler got “appropriated” towards egalitarian policies of inclusion and equality, in a sort of opposition to the way the nazis appropriated the swastika