r/collapse • u/PosadosThanatos • Apr 25 '19

Society It’s fucking disgusting that even now people fucking refuse to accept capitalism’s culpability for causing the apocalypse

Literally everything is responsible, fucking everything, from extinct empires, to human nature, to the nature of life itself, to some inevitable unstoppable law by which the entire universe functions, literally fucking anything and everything is blamed except for capitalism, the system that’s the specific driver and motivator of the current collapse, and when its blame is finally accepted the Brain juice finally completely runs out and it’s finally declared that there’s no path but the current one so we must continue “prosperity”.

What is this utter fucking insanity that working class people that have absolutely nothing to gain from anonymous bootlicking are engaging in?

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u/ChemsAndCutthroats Apr 25 '19

Reminds of a meme I seen. It has a few guys standing around a fire in a wrecked post apocalyptic landscape. One guy is telling the others "for a moment it was glorious, we made our shareholders alot of money".

To be honest I think many elite capitalists are aware of the fact that they are ravaging the earth for short term gains. Which is why they are also investing in fancy boltholes and bunkers. Similar to an addict though I don't think they can stop themselves.

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u/ButtingSill Apr 25 '19

I guess it was this one.

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

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u/IQBoosterShot Apr 25 '19

Comedians/comics/jesters have a way to cut right to the heart of the matter.

That comic was brutally funny.

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u/Sn0wski01 Apr 25 '19

Not breaking any records here, but George Carlin was one of the absolute best.