A lot of good people are doing a lot of bad things that they don’t enjoy doing all the time. That seems weird. They even say stuff like “I don’t want to do this”. But then they recite some very serious sounding words or whatever and do it anyways.
Lol, okay on review that reads as priveledged. Easy for rectangle-havers to say.
There is underlying violence keeping a lot of people “at work” and doing the things they don’t want to do. An authoritarian violence keeping everyone in place.
The threat is to shelter, food, security, even humanity past a certain point. You don’t “go along”, we grind you into the ground. Or, “allow you to be ground by the environment we cocreated”.
Many people “do the thing they don’t want” because they are under much greater threat of material scarcity or physical violence than I am at present and I want to respect that.
this was extremely good, this is often what it feels like interacting with most people in the world, “oh its all very serious and complicated and justified by important reasons, you’re stupid so you just don’t understand why all these evil things have to keep happening.” my ex used to pull that shit on me constantly.
Lol, okay on review that reads as priveledged. Easy for rectangle-havers to say.
There is underlying violence keeping a lot of people “at work” and doing the things they don’t want to do. An authoritarian violence keeping everyone in place.
The threat is to shelter, food, security, even humanity past a certain point. You don’t “go along”, we grind you into the ground. Or, “allow you to be ground by the environment we cocreated”.
Many people “do the thing they don’t want” because they are under much greater threat of material scarcity or physical violence than I am at present and I want to respect that.
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this was extremely good, this is often what it feels like interacting with most people in the world, “oh its all very serious and complicated and justified by important reasons, you’re stupid so you just don’t understand why all these evil things have to keep happening.” my ex used to pull that shit on me constantly.