• hammertime@lemmy.org
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    2 days ago

    Why can’t it ever be “anti-rich?” Nobody can ever find the root cause because nobody cares about the cause, they just care about feeling hate because it makes them feel good.

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      I’m starting to think this isn’t true. I think maybe a bunch of people lack the energy and ability to think deeply and frustration with not being able to, or not wanting to expend the energy is a certain portion of the rage.

      I’m not sure if I put that clearly. In other words, I think their jumping to rage is a sort of shortcut that sidesteps complex thinking and consideration of other perspectives.

      Maybe that’s not as relevant here. But I think what I’m exploring is pervasive in our American society. Thinking about politics, and sociology is just too exhausting for people. And they lash out and scream about it. Make mental shortcuts. Use black and white thinking. Othering people. Etc.

      And I don’t think our food supply, heath care and education system are helping. In fact, I think all of them actively lower the capacity for your average person to be reflective.

      Maybe I’m incoherent here; but I think there’s some truth somewhere in this that goes beyond “no shit, Americans are dumb.” I expect that sort of knee jerk shallow response. And to that I say, “sure, but… my point is…”

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        The frustration comes from the feeling of helplessness. How do we solve the problem of the ruling class when the ruling class is literally ruling.

        The answer is: you kill them, and their children. (You don’t leave loose ends to come back and get revenge, sorry not sorry.)

        But most people don’t want to kill. They want to avoid killing so much that they’ll let the ruling class murder people around them and still they say, “no, let’s not murder the ruling class.”

        But, they’re still mad. So, they take it out on people around them because they don’t think they can defeat the rich. And they can’t… unless they kill them.

        And you’re right that people are being physically poisoned with crap food, lead water, dirty air, etc. it all makes people more controllable.

        So, in conclusion, kill the ruling class and then make laws that kill anyone trying to become the ruling class. If that makes you (whoever is reading) mad, maybe you should be mad at the root cause (ruling class), and not me.