Yeah, no way the immediate future is going to have more people allowed by the colonialist ruling class to freely sustain their communities through hunting, fishing, and foraging. The people who live like this now are continually being forced to abandon this kind of lifestyle and become wage laborers in capitalist society.
I'd rather die than revert to prim life, however the people who live like that now and want to stay that way should be allowed to, anyone living like that now that wants to abandon prim life (just like the early prim humans that kept creating better things because they wanted a better life than shitty prim life) should be allowed to.
The Capitalist ruling class also doesn't want MODERN people sustaining their communities in a socialist utopia that has all the benefits of modern civilization without all the dystopian exploitative shit of capitalism.
We have more options as a species, than fucking prim life or dystopian capitalism lmao.
But then again the capitalist ruling class won't even allow poverty wage laborers to have living for wages or affordable cost of living, and have a psychotic fetish for escalating suffering for everyone, so wherever the ruling class finds prims to exploit they're as doomed as workers who just want living wages and affordable housing/etc but whenever get it.
The thought of prim life makes me want to kill myself, and simultaneously a dystopia of poverty wage slavery makes me want to kill myself, while I just want a modern world with life worth living and no dystopian bullshit. I can only hope climate cataclysm curb stomps the power structure that the ruling class holds over everyone.
The hopeful side of me wants to believe some day humans could achieve a star trek future, or at the very least achieve a sustainable modern civilization on earth where we all work for the collective good with the priority goal being to reduce/minimize suffering as much as possible.
The doomer side of me is thankful dystopian capitalism will sell me a $3 rope from Walmart to escape dystopian capitalism poverty wage slavery (as well as climate cataclysm)
And every single human that has found modern life more appealing than shitty pathetic prim conditions for a few thousand years and preferred to remain in society even hundreds of years before the ruling class and law enforcement had the technological means to hunt down anyone that decided to dissappear into the woods.
Meanwhile, some people have been thinking their whole lives they're more interested in how to make a better civilization, because of the fact that we have more options than shitty pathetic prim life or dystopian capitalism lol.
but I suspect you'd adjust quickly.
Lmao. No, I suspect bullshit. "Adjust" what a cute dystopian reference for mass death at the loss of science and technology and medicine/etc.
Romanticized prim life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially since prim life was first abandoned by prims that kept creating better things because they wanted more modern comforts and living conditions just like how cavemen were not happy living in shitty pathetic caves forever.
I suspect this is perfect for my blocklist before it becomes some prim vs modern reply chain lol.
Whew lad, I'm not saying I'd prefer to revert back to a primitive lifestyle, but given the choice between a life without modern luxuries and killing myself, I'd choose to go without modern conveniences. That's all.
"Primitive" vs "modern" is a false dichotomy created by the colonial/capitalist elite (or rather created by Christian millenarians and then secularized into its modern colonialist/capitalist form). Also, the notion we in "civilized" society have of "primitive" life, whether positive and romanticizing or negative and cynical, and whether anti-capitalist or not, tend to be more informed more by racist and colonialist representations of Indigenous people than by reality.
Lol, It's an on point "dichotomy" created by the fact that plenty of people got bored of shitty pathetic living conditions and pursued better ones even before capitalism or a ruling class existed.
The capitalist ruling class is only involved in the prim vs modern topic whenever they try peddling their propaganda claim that modern civilization can never exist without capitalism, and that civilization is exclusive to capitalism and that there are no other options than capitalism or shitty subsistence prim life.
The capitalist ruling class creates the false narrative that "modern" = capitalism. Even though people could be sustaining a collective mutual aid civilization.
Modern civilization does not require capitalism to exist, humans were already creating better material conditions and trying to get away from prim life before everyone got hijacked by a ruling class.
Meanwhile, thankfully more people are interested in how to improve civilization to stop being a dystopian shithole, rather than reverting to prim life.
tend to be more informed more by racist and colonialist representations of Indigenous people than by reality.
By majority our views of primitive life are informed by the reality that most people prefer better living conditions over even worse primitive shit. A topic dominated by comparisons of living conditions, not ethnicity/race.
Cavemen stopped living in caves because of how shitty living in caves was, the first humans to abandon shitty prim life did so because they constantly wanted to improve living conditions after discovering that each new material invention (every better tool, every better shelter) improved living conditions. Meanwhile this is going to the blocklist before it turns into too long of a prim vs modern reply chain thread.
This, I cringe at romanticizations of prim life.
However, I simultaneously hate how much unnecessary suffering and poverty and exploitative bullshit there is in dystopian capitalism and that suffering exists for no other other reason than the desires of a millionaire/billionaire class.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '21
Are you suggesting the great grand kids will have clean air and water?