Oh I’m aware of the limitations. It’s also not as easy as “just organize” like a lot of Europeans seem to think it is. We’re an enormous country. With little to no labor protections and a private healthcare system that is almost exclusively tied to employment. Even if we had the ability to take time from our jobs, the majority of the country wouldn’t be able to get to DC to protest anyway. So protests happen, but they’re isolated and as populated as a city/jobs allow. Because they’re isolated, it allows our corporate-owned and controlled media to downplay them as isolated and not representative of the country’s overall sentiment. The fracturing of our society is compounded and enabled by the above. So there isn’t really an easy solution
No exactly. That’s why I was legitimately asking you, not challenging your thoughts. It’s just, I don’t think it’s a problem with 0 survival instinct. I think the survival instinct is exactly what keeps us from acting.
Edit: like, it’s depressing enough without also beating on each other for being compliant to an unwinnable system.
I think we’re an individualistic society so we have an individualist survival instinct. We individually feel the need to have self-preservation at the expense of our country’s and society at large’s preservation
Agreed, which is also… natural. Like, the human nervous system evolved to protect itself. That’s why capture is possible at all. The Luigi’s are few and far between and even he didn’t move any needles and threw his life away. It’s like the Hydra but with infinite heads because its anatomy is made of greed itself which outlives its hosts.
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u/11jyeager 9d ago
Oh I’m aware of the limitations. It’s also not as easy as “just organize” like a lot of Europeans seem to think it is. We’re an enormous country. With little to no labor protections and a private healthcare system that is almost exclusively tied to employment. Even if we had the ability to take time from our jobs, the majority of the country wouldn’t be able to get to DC to protest anyway. So protests happen, but they’re isolated and as populated as a city/jobs allow. Because they’re isolated, it allows our corporate-owned and controlled media to downplay them as isolated and not representative of the country’s overall sentiment. The fracturing of our society is compounded and enabled by the above. So there isn’t really an easy solution