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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of the expression: "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism."

The current system is indeed slowly ripped apart by its own internal contradictions, just as all other systems in the past did, but the new system is not there yet. The in-between is always a confusing time while people try to cling to the old system like Stockholm syndrome to their captors. It's only going to get worse. I can't say I have any signs of a viable new systems appearing. There have been attempts, not nothing that can stand up to that resistance you mentioned.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the new system is not there yet.

I'm glad at least one other person gets it, where we're at and what our actual situation is.

My worry is about how bad things are going to get before the "new system" begins to solidify. We have like, three or four different serious wildcards that are so unpredictable that I can't fathom what the next four decades are going to look like. We're about to see the fastest and most profound changes to society in all recorded history, but we still have brains that were developed in the Ice Age for surviving bears and wolves. We're not the rational, thinking species we think we are and we're about to collectively run headlong into that reality for the first time as a species.

this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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