Insist On Being Human - Tumblr Posts
The whole core of how capitalist-approved "economics" works involves "people constantly acting only in their own self-interest"...
Which makes their systems patently false from the start.
Because humans are actually humane.
We evolved to be.
Despite them creating police forces and militaries and committing massacres and genocides, and enclosing common lands and enforcing hard borders and false scarcities and unnecessary cut-throat competition throughout the world -- they can't QUITE seem to condition human beings into not being human...
No matter what they do, humans will still crave the act of saving each other from dangers, and the act of being saved by other humans.
No matter what they do, humans will still need connections to community and to the earth, in order to thrive.
No matter what they do, humans will still want peace and pleasure and rest; the ability to create and to collaborate and to explore; and being able to accomplish tasks that have actual impact and meaning for themselves and for their communities.
The only way that the rich can keep playing this pointless, dick-waving, worldwide, world-destroying monopoly game they got going; is if they abolish humans, and create an economy out of bots.
Between capitalism and religion (esp. christianity), we are all weaned on falsehoods that lead to some extremely horrible presumptions and attitudes about our world, ourselves, and others.
Capitalism keeps telling us that meritocracy is real.
It also reassures us that, if something awful happens to someone, it's because they didn't work hard enough to avoid it -- and so, of course, people should not receive the help they need to recover.
( Makes it a lot easier for the rich to justify their hoarding of resources if they've convinced you that other people shouldn't have them for one reason or another.
This pretty much also conditions us towards eugenicist thinking: sharpening already completely unnecessary competition for very much available resources, and helping to frame disabled and chronically-ill folk for society-wide scapegoating ).
Religion tells us that we are evil people from birth.
That, no matter what we do, we cannot be redeemed unless an abuser in the sky says so.
Religion pushes the fascist idea of "Might Makes Right" through the god character, who both encourages and excuses all manner of atrocities throughout the bible, and endlessly subjects others to arbitrary, unforgiving rules and nonsensical tests of loyalty.
In this way, religion reassures us that the moral code that we should follow isn't founded on consent and well-being; but is instead dependent on the arbitrary whims of whoever has the power to force, coerce, and exploit others into obedience and servitude.
Add onto that that marketing continually flattens things that it is good to pursue (like friendship, connection, knowledge, community building, and love); and hypes things that will never create true validation, happiness, or wholeness if we pursue them (such as constant consumerism, brand worship, celebrity worship, and the use of social media to show off coveted experiences instead of pursuing GENUINE experiences that we enjoy because we enjoy them, rather than pretending to enjoy them because it will raise our social status in the eyes of others); and it is no wonder that some find themselves seeking out and enjoying displays of cruel mockery and humiliation leveled towards fellow human beings in order to self-soothe.
It is no wonder that some are constantly of the opinion that humanity is "just evil"; and that, not only does humanity not deserve to continue, not only is the extinction of humanity a foregone conclusion; but that the extinction of humanity would be a guaranteed active good in any and all timelines.
It is no wonder that so many people will decry the ill-treatment of animals and pets, and then turn and shrug in apathy at the horrors that beset even human beings, even the innocent, even the young.
It is no wonder that so many become buried by internalized 'isms' and insecurities that they find it nearly impossible to believe that they deserve consideration and care from their "society".
It is no wonder that people see the work of defending each other, protecting each other, and abolishing this system so that humanity can finally become its best self; as being pointless, or even somehow harmful.