We have lost all sense of self preservation. Almost like we the gipity. Which came first the gipity or the ape? I swear chain smoking monkeys driving cars.
Because the ruling class ideas are the ruling ideas, they control education, public spaces and media (and also the repression apparatus in case the former is insufficient). It’s not about the sense of self preservation, we are not so different than ancient or medieval commoners who found questioning the divine rights of kings to own everything, a crazy idea.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.
― Karl Marx
Communism is when we all share a toothbrush
No seriously I had an old woman, good friend of our family, tell me that democratic socialists wanted to make illegals live with us in our houses that we paid for. Like that was their plan, they were going to force homeowners to house migrant families.
What the fuck have they been smoking in this country? That’s not how ANY of this works!
My grandfather actually had to share his own house with five other families in Bulgaria in the forties after the revolution.
Equality gives a feeling of helplessness. There is no hope for a high status person with the knowledge and skills to solve the hard problems.
The more global warming and nuclear threats create uncertainty the more people feel the need to find somebody who resolves their problems. With their power and status symbols billionaires trigger the feeling that they are what we need to create a better world. If we distribute their power it feels like we destroy our only hope.
We could start resolving our problems by ourselves, right here, right now. With digital goods the means of production can be created from nothing. (But) Who dares to say how we should start?
Rich people don’t want to give anything up.
Assholes don’t want their out-group to have anything nice. Even if it means they suffer.
Many people don’t know shit about fuck, and they’re just trying to get through the week.
The people who currently own the means of production really really like having control over everything.
🤠 they sure do
Because more than half of people don’t really understand what the means of production is in the first place.
I do think the terminology resulting from “German translated to English in the late 1800s” does not help.
It looks like the future is gonna be some people don’t even know where babies come from…They lost the ability to know how to grow food. This is the new dark ages
A lot of current people don’t know thanks to a lack of public education on the subject.
Not all is lost though. I recall seeing an interview with an American World War 2 veteran describing his understanding of how babies were made prior to getting married as “I recall thinking it had something to do with the belly button.” So “we” have been there before.
In case anyone here doesn’t know, babies come from the butt.
What is a gipity?
“AI” shortened version of chat gipity 🤣
I highkenuinely thought it was an ancient species of ape that came before the monkeys you mentioned.
In Germany we say (schett) skibbidy. I kinda like it.
ChatGPT -> GPT -> GiPiTee -> gipity
Bosses did a really great job convincing us otherwise
Who’s this “public” guy?
