Come on man, isn’t Lemmy cynical enough already?

• The most meaningful reforms, like large-scale climate action, won’t happen until citizens present a credible threat to the owning class’s dominance, making reform the appealing compromise.
• The owning class, at least a large section of it, along with loyal reactionaries will wage violent open war before ceding power leftward. They have the option to decide if a peaceful road forward exists, and historically, then tend to mass murder citizens instead.

Capitalism made almost everything the same big pile of shit. No matter the language and culture, in the end, it’s the same shit.

Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.

I believe we live in a very duplicitous world were greedy old people don’t mind seeing the world burn if they can get richer. The more you learn about the world the shittier it seems. I expect humanity will go extinct either because of climate change or due to achieving AGI and everyone being rendered for materials to make more money.

People who choose to suppress a growing power with the idea that they can easily win,
then make it look like they’re the victims when the victims decide to fight back,
with the ones standing up to themselves becoming stronger and stronger over time,
and the suppressing people choosing to never negotiate a losing battle/war
apart from demanding that the winning party makes concessions to let them win,
deserve to die through the consequences of their own actions.

Bonus points for those people who fly banners of freedom and progressiveness
while their organizers get paid by doing the bidding
of oppressive conservative foreign agents
who want their country to regress for their own gains of power.
And while displaying their wicked pop-culture chants, posters and gestures,
are often demanding their government to retract a reasonable proposal such as
‘murder, and that includes any incel strangling his perceived girlfriend to death,
should be made illegal, even if you’re on a vacation’
or ‘stop taking money from foreign agents’
that are mild copies of laws from said foreign agents’ country.

And even more bonus points for the appointed new leader
legitimized through a so-called international award of good behavior.

And I say this because while all the hypocrisy is absolutely infuriating,
to top it off by trying to chop off the hand and head
that tries to give you mercy, then there’s no redemption,
only more and more defense against
a more and more deadly risky liable escalation

That we will continue to exploit other humans for material comfort, and justify it with more or less overt racism - black and brown lives just can’t matter, otherwise we’d have to give up our privilege and things. Make their countries unlivable and let them drown trying to get out.

That this fits . . .

If I had access to all of the televisions and radios in Imperial America, I would get somebody famous like Zohran Mamdani to read a paper detailing how the upper classes not only facilitated the rise of Fascism in Europe, but also profited from the Axis’s war crimes and survived the twentieth century almost completely unpunished. At the end, he would say something like ‘As I speak, hundreds of thousands of workers are going to seek and despoil the upper classes with the understanding that there is no other way to make them pay for their crimes, and that this course of action is far more preferable to leaving them unpunished.’

I suspect that few people, if any, would take action.

What’s your most cynical opinion about the world?

The Earth will, eventually, long after we’re all gone, be incinerated by the sun. If life co-exists elsewhere in the universe, I suspect it will be too distant to have much impact on us nor them. So I believe that humanity will inevitably have no meaningful legacy in the long term. And I also believe there is no objective meaning to existence, it’s just a neat little quirk of chaos.

That doesn’t imply I think nothing is meaningful, it doesn’t take long to notice I care deeply about people and what we do. But, ultimately, meaning is temporary and subjective. (I haven’t explored much of formal philosophy but I’ve heard my perspective aligns with absurdism or existentialism)

edit: I didn’t realize this isn’t actually cynicism (a prudent distrust), but more nihlism (a distrust upon belief in meaning)

It’s all getting worse and I can’t see any way to stop it.

Evil is inherent to the world. All light casts a shadow.

Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.

Talking to Normal students in high school and in university in Australia (considered to be an imperial core country). I realised these people just really don’t give a fuck.

Most people don’t want to gain class consciousness, they think the current system is the best they can ever have and they wouldn’t want to risk it. Or they just refuse to reconise capitalism as the root problem.

Most people are too buzy with what ever that is happening near them that tragedy someone else are suffering on the other side of the world is just not important enough for them to take any action to try and change it.

Unless capitalism serious affects their ability to feed themselves or ablity to distract them from their misery (religion, social media, hobby etc), they won’t be bothered to do anything.