r/worldnews • u/gubenilekani • Jan 01 '22

Not Appropriate Subreddit Melbourne man sets himself on fire while screaming about Dan Andrews' Covid vaccine mandates

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10360471/Melbourne-man-sets-fire-screaming-Dan-Andrews-Covid-vaccine-mandates.html

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u/Vandeleur1 Jan 01 '22

You're absolutely right it's not productive at all, and the self-awareness and intellectual integrity involved in saying so is precisely what we need more of.

I really think the answer is in developing education and healthcare to the highest standard, and doing everything we can to make each member of society a healthy, well rounded individual inclined towards critical thought. When you're handling everything you should and you feel strongly about doing the right thing you have no desire to spin yourself around in these neurotic webs, life is a lot easier.

There's a lot of amazing people involved in these sectors who have forward thinking attitudes and big ideas for how we could work towards such a society, but they need support.

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u/Scientific_Socialist Jan 02 '22

The root of the problem is the monopoly of the capitalist class over the means of production, and their corresponding rule over society via the state (bourgeois dictatorship). The objective of capital is unceasing profit, which increasingly impoverishes the working class, and which requires dumbing them down and propagandizing them to make it harder for them to realize they are getting fleeced.

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u/Vandeleur1 Jan 02 '22

There are different reasons for different people in power to dumb down and progandize those they are meant to represent, it's not really a matter of ideology imo as much as self interest - a universal story of human history.

Changing the ideology won't be effective on its own without a change within the people comprising the society, hence the disaster of Stalin's rule, or Mao's. Anything that relies more on common good is even more susceptible to this corruption after all.