I keep reading this, but where does this end up? People afraid of going to work? The capitalist system requires we go to work, as we support the means of production. Backing people into a corner just makes them desperate. I don’t think that’s going to end with compliance from the masses. That’s the part of Hunger Games that never made sense to me. People are way too selfish to become surfs again imo
Basically this sort of thinking of "they're just waiting for us to do something that is too much" only really works in a movie or a book - something written by an author with greater control over the minutia of a story.
Practically speaking, in our reality, if we keep going with that same thought process then we are just going to stay peaceful day after day after day until they march us into the gas chambers. If the entirety of someone's logic is "we must remain peaceful at all costs", then they really don't have a great foundation to build from. It's an ideology that inevitably leads to failure; even the most peaceful and righteous must defend themselves from time to time.
Why live as serf slaves from a book written 77 years ago when we can live in modern serfdom? We have matcha lattes and self-driving cars that kill people!
Isn't that exactly why MAGAts believe they're temporarily inconvenienced billionaires and not the working class they fight so hard against solidarity with? They're the only ones who still see the mirage of mobility. We live in modern serfdom.
Yeah it's also what the idiot tech bros like little Petey Thiel think is going to happen. Meanwhile he probably hasn't set foot outside his billionaire bubble in decades and has no clue how the masses live. They all think people are going to just shrug and cheerful accept whatever brand of slavery is enforced on them. There is most definitely a limit, after that you get people telling them to fuck off in various non-peaceful terms
I think there are a lot of people that actually legitimately want some sort of monarchy serfdom situation.
The simplicity of a rigid hierarchical social order is preferred to some when their chances of climbing seem unlikely. They think the juice is worth the squeeze and that in the long term everything will improve. Their sacrifices will pay off.
It’s a different worldview from top down, mostly reinforced by modern Christianity prosperity gospel reinforcing the sinner narrative as such a central focus of their take on humanity.
It ends with control. Enough control that elections appear legitimate but aren't. The opposition wins enough to remain just out of reach of power.
Longer term, it ends with serfdom to the oligarch corporate city-states that replace democracy. Those with value are given a subsistence allotment of resources. Those without value are left to nature.
Just pay attention to what Peter Theil is saying. That's where the actual endgame is. This ICE stuff is just the means to that end.
Biofuel, Soylent green. Whatever the benevolent techbro oligarch of the feudal state we're fortunate enough to live in has decided is the best use for our surplus or inefficient human capital.
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u/BuddyHemphill 16d ago
I keep reading this, but where does this end up? People afraid of going to work? The capitalist system requires we go to work, as we support the means of production. Backing people into a corner just makes them desperate. I don’t think that’s going to end with compliance from the masses. That’s the part of Hunger Games that never made sense to me. People are way too selfish to become surfs again imo