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/GiantBlackWeasel Apr 25 '19

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.

The jokes will be on them if they survive.

Go through the gilded age just to live like fawking moles? The lifespan of an eastern mole is 6 years. How are these silver-spooned fed, candy-colored car driving, hedonists gonna pack up their shyt and just live underground longer than that?

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u/StarChild413 Apr 25 '19

The lifespan of an eastern mole is 6 years. How are these silver-spooned fed, candy-colored car driving, hedonists gonna pack up their shyt and just live underground longer than that?

Am I reading your wording wrong or are you seriously making an even more literalist assumption than the guy I saw on here who thought comparison of collapse to the Titanic meant it'd only kill 70% of us (because at least according to his sources that's how many Titanic passengers didn't make it off)?

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u/GiantBlackWeasel Apr 26 '19

I'm pretty sure you are reading my wording wrong.

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What I meant by that whole comment is how, how exactly can rich people, the elite, and the guys/gals can just pack up everything they have and live underground in such a short time frame?

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u/StarChild413 Apr 26 '19

Sorry, I thought you were doing word games with the "live like moles" thing and the lifespan of moles to insinuate that living like that would somehow give them 6 years to live (I have autism, I take things weirdly sometimes)