(12-12-2020, 12:32 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-11-2020, 12:14 AM)Einzige Wrote: It's amazing how little any of you are willing to question anything systemically.
Let me give you an example from the government.
Herbert Hoover initiated programs that Roosevelt expanded into the New Deal. Carter deregulated trucking, airlines etc. Obama expanded Dubya's drone programs and Trump utilized Obama's concentration camps for immigrants.
The problem is capitalism. This is not to be understood as a mere call from expanded social programs: social programs are intrinsic to capitalism. Nor is it a call directed for a vulgar class war against the rich. A real revolution would require a total transformation in the way we lead our lives. It would require a profoundly radical dropping out from the mechanisms of production and open revolt against all existing instrumentalists of Capital.
Covid is in some ways a fauxdemic in the sense that Capital has been primed for a shift to a distributed form for a long time now. Most manual labor is going to be automated soon. The response to the crisis is meant to facilitate a shift in this direction.
Also, all these cultural signifiers you're talking about - "feminization" etc. - are just signifiers of positions in production. There's no overwhelming need to be ultranasculine if you expect to be a cubicle drone all your life. And you expect to be a cubicle drone because that appears the long term trajectory of Capital. Globalism isn't some sinister ideology; it is a mostly unconscious process driven by market forces. Most of life is bullshit production.