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JeffG @JeffG - 10d

GM Nostr. I'm in a dark mood this morning. In the US, we're staring down an presidential election where, on one hand, we have a deranged old man who can't even read a teleprompter and, on the other, a totally spoiled psychopath who thinks he's entitled to whatever he wants. The thing is, the actually agree on 99% of things behind closed doors. Keep the status quo going, keep their friends in power, take more freedom from the people. In Europe, a union born from the horrors of two great world wars, they've been shockingly quick to forget that oppression and war always comes after you try and control speech, control flows of people and money, and force conformity. You're not "looking after the downtrodden", you're destroying the human spirit. I never thought it could or would get to this level of state psychosis in my lifetime. I thought maybe the covid shit show might have been a turning point. A gaze into a dark abyss from which we'd recoil and start making the necessary changes. But it's clear that isn't the case. The political class continues to double down on limiting freedom, destroying livelihoods, and crushing dreams. I really truly hope, for my kids generation, that we manage to unfuck this situation without another world war. I'm unfortunately getting less and less optimistic about that.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 10d

My kids are generally apathetic about politics, as are their friends, and I suspect the state is going to slowly erode in prominence due to sheer lack of interest and hard money. They're writing all these new laws to intimidate and control people who ignore those new laws.

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JeffG @JeffG - 10d

Best case scenario for sure. They don't have the ability to enforce anything. I wouldn't bet that they would go down without a pretty protracted fight though.

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 10d

Well, anarcho-tyranny seems to be the plan. Write a gazillion laws and selectively enforce them to make examples and terrorize everyone, like with COVID. But the kids are getting harder to terrorize. Apathy can be a superpower and they increasingly have little to lose. What do you take from someone who has nothing? You can't lock up the entire working population. And if you did, would they really even care?

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Laeserin @Laeserin - 10d

We also have more homogenous and splintered societies, now, so different groups don't really pay attention to what the other groups are doing, and social shaming and naming is largely ineffective, and nobody talks to the cops. Things fall apart.

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JeffG @JeffG - 10d

I have always been a consummate optimist. But starting to feel like we have a lot on the horizon more than I have before.

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JeffG @JeffG - 10d

💯

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JeffG @JeffG - 10d

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I agree, it’s tough. Yes, there are plenty of left side of the curve folks but honestly I’m more worried about the laziness and apathy than lack of intelligence. All we can do is keep talking about it, keep helping people build their plan B and keep pushing back as much as possible.

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a5d96 - 10d

The apathy wave 🌊🥱

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JeffG @JeffG - 10d

💯💯 that’s why I’m all in on both and willing to put the next 50 years worth of hard work in to push them forward. We can make the world we want. Even just having that brazen of a position makes us more powerful than most others out there! ✊ LFG!

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