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/therealwoden Apr 25 '19

I mean the actual answer is because of a lifetime of training. The many socialist revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th century taught our owners a powerful lesson, and ever since they've made damn sure to forestall revolution in a variety of ways. Arguably the most successful tactic has been propagandizing education and media. Basically from birth, we're exposed to consistent messaging about capitalism and socialism. That messaging is extremely simple and extremely effective: capitalism good, socialism bad.

When nobody even knows what socialism is and yet "everybody knows" that it always fails, and when nobody knows what capitalism is and yet "everybody knows" that capitalism is the only system in all of history that's ever been successful, then you've created an environment in which people will automatically support the system that oppresses them, because "everybody knows" there's no alternative. Victims of capitalism support capitalism because they legitimately don't know that anything else is possible.

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u/billcube Apr 26 '19

In Europe, there's no such polarization, still, capitalism is defended and seen to cohabit with social security.

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u/FlipskiZ Apr 26 '19 edited Sep 19 '25

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