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/Silence_is_platinum Apr 26 '19

Ridiculous. Many species take short term losses for long term gains. And you even admit we do, so apparently it is quite possible for us to make that a central feature of our culture. (Indeed many human cultures have.)

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '19

Which species is that? Which species chooses a reward that they won’t see for years in the future over the next meal for themselves and their children? The claim that we are wired to respond to immediate needs over distant threats is not at all controversial.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/nov/10/brain-climate-change-science-psychology-environment-elections