Hey y'all, I know things are pretty fucked right now, just wanted to share an optimistic perspective. (Copied from a comment here).
I have honestly never been more bloomer in my life.
EVERYONE is thinks things suck.
EVERYONE is pissed.
EVERYONE is trying to do something about it.
The only problem is that people don't know why things suck, or how to make it better.
Fascists think things suck because of [minority], and so they want to get rid of [minority].
Liberals think things suck because of the fascists, and so would like everyone to just play nice and we can work this all out, please.
But WE know.
WE know the problem! IT'S CAPITALISM!!!
WE know the solution! KILL CAPITALISM!!!
If everyone in the world woke up tomorrow and knew what we know, the suffering would stop.
The collective rage that we see in society would be directed at the true enemy instead of each other, and nothing in the world is more powerful than people working together to make things better.
The only thing we must do to win, the only thing that truly matters, is to get everyone to understand.
History has blessed us with the ultimate weapon.
A material power that Marx and Lenin and Sankara and Newton could not dream of wielding in their wildest fantasies.
NOW is the moment in history for revolution.
Capitalism WILL fall in our lifetimes.
I'll be surprised if it lasts twenty years.
The contradictions have become undeniable.
The people want change, they just need direction.
And for the first time in history, we have a direct line to every single one of them.
Don't you DARE quit on us.
We need everyone we can get.
Now get back to posting, soldier.
"It is literally, materially a direct line of communication to everyone."
This is deeply untrue. I'm an adult educator and I can tell you right now, no ifs, ands, or buts, that there is a massive demographic of people who have functionally zero contact with the Internet. There is a digital divide that is a huge stumbling block for overcoming educational access. This is not even an age thing, it has so many vectors. Rural access is much less. Access for the impoverished is much less. Access for people of colour, especially Indigenous people, for disabled people, for migrants, for criminalized people, for people on the streets, for people working multiple jobs, are all much less. If someone has not completed high school, they are much less likely to use the Internet, especially for education. Illiterate adults are also really not using the Internet, and this is a large percentage of the population. Perhaps a shockingly large percentage, if you don't have experience teaching adult literacy.
If you have contact with education and with vulnerable sectors you will very quickly realize the limits of the Internet in reaching the people most in need. A huge portion of the population don't even know how to send an email. This is not an exaggeration, digital literacy is quite literally an essential component of my job. Not to say anything about all the rest of your post, just want to reiterate what starkillerfish was saying, that the Internet is not a direct line to everyone, but instead a direct line to certain demographics.