Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?
Because westerners are obsessed with good vs. Evil for absolutely no reason.
People are scared and angry and want action without thinking about the long-term gains only the short term. Creating fear is fascism 101 and how many rise to power
Because good doesn’t have the stomach to go blow for blow with evil anymore.
Class solidarity among the rich. Rich people want willing servants. They want people to fear disobeying them.
Because the return of massive wealth disparity - similar to having kings again - has allowed those with money and power to bend the world in the direction of some form of dictatorship, whether it be fascism, oligarchy, whatever…. The New Kings are carving up society and want to increase control and profit, and an authoritarian governance is the way to do it. Just like how they treat their corporations. They are dictators, the little people are disposable production units to feed their machine.
How did we overthrow Kings again? Something about us becoming ahem “Enlightened” during some sort of era or period? What can we learn from the successes and failures? How did Europeans get ideas of freedom, autonomy, equality, and question of authority from when all they knew about was Kings and Divine Right? Did they perhaps go to some kind of ahem New World with a matchcoat and musket to live and trade amongst the natives for 200 years?! Perhaps there was some sort of ahem Indiginous Critique on European Culture that sorta blew the minds of the French, English, and Dutch alike? Perhaps they wrote some plays about this! That they could disobey or :gasps: impeach their leaders? That pursuasion and reason might be more important? Perhaps over some coffee and pipe tobacco? Oh right, next thing you’d think i’d say is they didn’t trade or so much as look at silver? How they MUST have had a “Market” how else could goods or heirlooms possibly trade hands? Certainly not gifts, quests, or gambling! Jeez, I wonder if we still have something to learn from these ideas that were just too darn complicated for Ben Franklin and Jean Jacque Rousseau!
The rebels in Myanmar are winning.
There’s a new miracle drug for addictions.
That’s all I can think of.
Because they’re evil. Rather, they don’t place the same constraints on themselves that a good person places on themselves.
Because you’re reading too much news and the intention of majority of them is not to make you informed but scared and angry. The vast majority of thing you’re scared about never end up happening.
This is exactly what I was going to say. The news economy, and the algorithm economy, both depend on grabbing attention.
If you make a news article saying everything’s a kind of okay right now, nobody’s going to read it and look at your ads or click on anything.
If you say oh my God the municipal water boards totally f***** you won’t believe what they just did, people are going to click to see what the hell happened. And then you say everything’s mostly okay, but the commissioner wore a weird tie to the meeting…
Because of doom scrolling and 24/7 negative news coverage.
Fact of the matter is it is easier to destroy than create, so if evil was as rampant as people think, we wouldn’t have a society. We’d be living in Mad Max. The vast majority of people want stability.
That’s, ironically, how the white supremacists felt all these years lol
Capitalism
Life isn’t a movie. The good guys rarely win irl.
Just an hour ago I heard EmiliaRoig.com talking on the EuropeansPodcast.com (minute 28) and she said something that at first sounded naïve to me. But in hindsight, it may be true.
She said that “times are changing for the better (i.e. referring to the last 10 years or more.) and what we are seeing nowadays is just a shout of despair to that, being done by right-wing extremists, and is loud.”
I can recommend all that she said afterwards, be warned: talks fast ;p
Rent is due in 2 days. Things must be changing for the better for my landlord.
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
But you know what evil is also good for??
MERCHANDISING! MERCHANDISING!!
And here we are Schwartzless.
The world has been in a gigantic psychological experiment.
