>>7556

I understand where you are coming from, but you can't use authority to solve the problem. Revolution doesn't work, because the people with gun just end up imposing their own short sighted version of justice and fairness on everyone else. People have to change on an individual level to solve the problem. I understand the odds are stacked against it but there is literally no other option, the moment you invoke authority it just becomes another form of bullshit and you become the bad guy.

Even if capitalism collapsed tomorrow, the system that replaced it would be just as bad. Because the system is itself an product of the culture that creates it. Like I said before, there are no shortcuts and we will never live to see the better society that exists downstream of all this, but we can edge it slowly along toward our desired destination.

I hate -isms, but if I had to pick one it would be anarchism, with a strong emphasis on cooperation and sharing. People may think it's impossible, and maybe it is, but there's no reason in my mind that we as individual people couldn't each make the choice to treat each other better. We wouldn't need government or money if people would simply treat honesty and charity as the defaults. Yes, sometimes someone will take advantage of us, yes sometimes we will encounter people who can't be reasoned with, but we can reach a critical mass of intellectual honesty and goodwill that can make those edge cases less of a problem. Something that doesn't require violence or law to solve, because those don't solve problems, they exacerbate them.

I see a lot of these thoughts in the words you have said, and so like I said I agree with much of your vision, but burning the world down will NOT fix the problem. If anything, it will make it worse, sending us back to the age of warlords and extreme authoritarianism. We may not be very far past that point now but peace is imperative if we are to be able to engage in rational discourse as individuals so we can navigate all of this madness. Revolution and war means the end of the conversation and the beginning of next cycle of oppression.