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>>27007
Excellent posts, anons. I'd just like to add by saying that the sole reason nothing gets done is because the general public cannot be roused to improve things as long as they have creature comforts. Juvenal recognized this in Ancient Rome, and many before and after him have too. Humanity is a masochistic race, you can literally do anything to 'em and someone, somewhere, will find a reason to justify passive acceptance or even normalization. People don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves and their "loved ones" (and at times, even this is a stretch) and if confronted with this, then they will lash out accordingly. You literally have people who deny that rape gangs are a thing, despite it basically being common knowledge. Look at the Charlene Downes case, and how little attention is paid to her compared to, say, Madeline McCann. The arbitrary whims of the media are fueled by the chronic apathy of the masses. Even Sophie Scholl said as much herself.
It is what it is.
That's why I laugh when people talk about boomers and zoomers - this shit is NOTHING new. We've basically been somebody's bitch since the dawn of the first cities - what, did you really think Alexander, Napoleon and Caesar were all followed by fanatical loyalists? The average person in those empires likely didn't give a fuck about them, and saw no reason other than not wanting to get killed for "treason" to follow them into battle. After all, Goering said it best:
>Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictaorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
That's human history in a nutshell. What we're experiencing now, as >>27007 put it:
>Culture is outsourced from communities to the whims of millionaires. Censorship and surveillance creep back over the population faster than they can probably be stopped. Poverty and homelessness are dismissed as inevitable for the greater good of landlording profits. Drug lords, murderers, and rapists are shielded by the state at the highest levels while the poor are sacrificed as scapegoats for these systemic crimes. These trends seldom falter, and on the occasions that they do falter they never fail to return en force and more than undo any good which may have been done in their absence.
This is nothing more than us going through the same stagnation, decline and fall that all of the previous empires did, with the sole difference that , as we're all interconnected, the whole world will feel it, should, say, America go down. Doomerdom is nothing new - it was likely observed throughout history and will continue to be until the sick, sad world we inhabit comes to an end.
>We're situated in a society full of greedy, passive aggressive, judgmental, self-serving, self-destructive individuals. There are too many people and too little time to bother trying to understand one another.
We've always been in one, and all anyone can do is demand a turn over who gets to run it. Change it? Bah, humbug! The only one who'd change it is being negative, and you don't want to be negative, do ya? So be a good consoomer and watch this latest CalArts abortion.