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@jimmybuffettfanaccount I think @sickburnbro is very spot on, you just got to realize that the systematic thinking here has a specific purpose, and the "personal responsibility" part is something that made it click for me.

Everything is so fake and gay is because the ultimate goal of the system is to reinforce the now current status quo, similar to how party members in Soviet Union were so devoted to the "Party" - take perpetual losers and dregs, give them power, and they will defend that party with everything they have. Even if the whole system is wrong, their own personal power and status depends on the system continuing on.

You look at the parallel today, and it's a bit different flavor of the same; There's a whole wide world hustling and bustling, and there's this party that gives you an "easy" out - you don't have to fail anymore, it's not your fault, it's someone else's. Strong White Men do a lot of stuff, they must be holding you back, it's not you. Just agree with this, and you will get comfort and power (soft power is still power) together with the rest of the group.

This party is parasitic in nature - as it grows and gains more hard power, the host (i.e., the productive society) starts to buckle; You end up with the usual leftist purity spiral and an ever expanding party that is both strangling the host AND requiring more resources at the same time; You now have a lot of people that depend on the party and you can't just "change" the foundation of it. The whole system springs up to continue the initial "It's not your fault" with more elaborate blames, and the more it grows, the stronger the boogeyman must be made, the more systems implemented to combat the -isms that are the cause of all of the problems to keep the gravy train running.

To some bugman academic, the party IS life. He has to sincerely believe that the white man caused X and Y, because the alternative is complete anathema to their living. What the fuck is a gender studies PHD gonna do in mad max world? He already invested too much. So he will prod on, trying to jockey up in this pity party.

Even if he had a smidge of realization of what needs to be done... why would he choose to do some hard labor (that would be required of him as a part of fixing what's wrong now) if he can just continue living a comfortable life as everything crumbles around him? <insert Dig the Fucking Hole meme here>. Even if it goes far enough, he can sit huddling over a little fire with his little circlejerk and blame someone for "not working hard enough to keep electricity running" - after all, it wasn't his responsibility.

I wonder if it would be possible to hack and replace this foundation (the aversion to personal responsibility) with something else to force current systems to reshape in a faster way, but this poast got too wordy already.

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