People revolt only when they feel sufficiently oppressed to be prepared to risk everything. But this critical threshold will never be reached when society has been collectively bought out by this economic system long ago. We are stakeholders and participants in everything wrong with the world today: exploitation, natural destruction, climate breakdown. This dystopian society is the most subordinated in history: we have sold this planet and sold ourselves out, down to the very last pieces that made us human, in exchange for cat videos and salaries. Was it worth it?
The necrosystem tries to convince us daily that a consumatronic existence is worth sacrificing everything for: our physical and mental health, our fellow humans, the Earth. Modern living is a colossal shrine to corruption: to how much abuse people can willingly take on if they are paid enough money. Those without money simply become blackmailed by the system, or appeased through distractions: becoming self-absorbed, emotionless consumatrons unable to recognize the vulgar assault that the system is subjecting them to. It is a sad thought.
The psychonomy achieved something tremendous: to normalise an extreme form of narcissism in us, one which absorbs all our energy and robs us of any ethics or conscience.
Well, the money is running out, but the abuse is getting worse. Perhaps we are approaching the revolution threshold after all, if we manage to see through the distractions. It is hard to “see” anything though, when the system leaves no room or time for imagination, contemplation, and consciousness. Only a global economic blackout which takes our consumer narcotics away from us, may help some of us awaken. Degrowth is one way of getting there. Complete collapse of everything is another.
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Yes, systemic economic collapse is the most likely, especially with a certain loose cannon kicking the spindly legs out from under the world’s financial systems. The debt (on all levels – financial and ecological) creates a vacuum which is due to implode. Meanwhile, as per your photo, the population has ceded their brain power to the new “Soma” (See “Brave New World,” Huxley) to keep them occupied, controlled and observed. And like Marx’s dialectic, the proles are both victims and beneficiaries of the capitalistic plot, enjoying a feast of material goods while enduring increasing servitude. With their minds captured, they have ceded all power to the Matrix.
If I remember: Lenin sums up revolutionary situation as :
YES we have. Fear of access to food is a powerfull motivator. We have been trained well. Hierarchy by money and status was/is a dead end. Without food access by money we may have had a chance. If food and shelter was a right and not a priviledge we may have had a chance. Our operative conditioning since birth in the cult of make believe has been very thorough. Strange thing this stuff called “MONEY”.