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Tl;dr - Luigi’s not crazy, it’s the rest of the world that’s gone mad.
(Shout out to Wonko the Sane)
We need to guillotine the sociopath class.
Luigi already did one, so what are you waiting for?
Talking big about revolutions and beheading people when you clearly have no intention of actually doing either, is honestly kinda pathetic.
How do you know I am not working on a revolution?
Good on you if you are. Are you?
Are you?
Revolution against capitalism isn't something I think is possible, they literally have all the money and power in the world and that is not a fight we can win.
Plus they aren't spending any of their trillions to fix climate change (not that they even could at this point), so what's the point in fighting for, or even dreaming of, a better future, when the rest of this century is going to involve the deaths of multiple billions of people to drought, famine, technological collapse, bad weather and run away heating.
So instead of spouting hollow platitudes about beheading billiomaires and needing revolutions, I've spent my energy elsewhere, mainly by studying climate science and enjoying what little health I have left.
Ahh nothing like having a more informed outlook, and using that to justify your nihilism and misanthropy. A bland and useless choice, but you aren't the first, and won't be the last. What it does tell me, is your opinion doesn't belong here, and doesn't actually matter.
And you don't need money to fix those problems, money just makes it easier. Labor is ultimately what fixes those problems, always was, always will be. Money is just a lubricant, it can't actually do any work on it's own. You could, instead of falling to lazy nihilism, rally other likeminded people in your field to start fixing whatever corners of the world you can. You could organize with your neighbors or fellow citizens and aim for doing your small part.
But I'll leave you to wait for your death, since it sounds like you've already made peace with being cattle. And I know better than to argue with livestock, not much can change your mind once you've made it. I'd wish you good luck, but it'd be pointless since you've already given up.
Ok, go fix the world and be the hero everybody needs.
Despite your behaviour here, I do wish you well in spreading this message of more labour and ignoring climate science and resource depletion, amongst your likely already overworked and under paid friends and neighbours.
Nothing says "We CAN fix this!" like naive optimism, but hey, who knows, maybe you'll get really, really lucky before the top soil and fresh water reserves run out and find a wizard capable of rewriting the laws of physics and reversing all those tipping points we've passed. Or a time traveller who can go throw a spanner 8nto the works of the industrial.revolution maybe?
Either way, you've got 25y at best there before the soil and water run out, and that's if, if we don't have a blue ocean event before then.
You should start now if you haven't already, that wizard might be pretty hard to find and time travellers are notorious for it.
You might be right, and that absolutely no solutions will exist between now and then. But the game isn't over yet, and I've never been one to just wait for the timer to run out, unless that's the win condition. I just hate losing. It's not about naive optimism, or ignoring the climate science. It's about doing anything and everything to create any sort of win condition, and using optimism and grit to boost morale. Because if we give up, you will be right, end of story.
That's also what makes your opinion actually less than worthless, it makes you an active detriment to finding such win conditions. I don't care if you believe that things can't get better, just stop spreading your doomerism like a plague for the human mind. Your nihilism, could have been existentialism, you could be more. It's real shame you just let all that time you put into studying go to waste because you decided to call it quits early.
And yeah everybody is overworked and underpaid(me too, btw), which is why its imperative that we continue working towards cutting out the Owner class out of our businesses, and out of our labors. Socialize the workplace, and make our labor having monetary meaning again.
Btw, I do know how bad it really is. I do know the climate science, and how many things we have blown past, that if we wanted to stop any of it we need to get our shit together decades ago. I just believe that damage mitigation matters, even if it ends up being only a narrow band for some of the human race to continue. And part of that damage mitigation starts with dealing with the problems of today by any means necessary.
However, if you are intent in doing nothing, giving up entirely, and not even giving a damn about mitigation. Then please give up quietly in the corner where the rest of us don't have to hear you, and choose a non-messy method for easy clean up. Thanks.
Lmao, go recycle something.
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Username checks out.
Read the next two books in the trilogy.
Year Of The Flood is one of my favourite books, I reread it every summer now. Toby and her little rituals are very comforting.
YotF was the first one I read of the trilogy too, but it doesn't make for quite as good a username with all those christian connotations.
I've read all the books in the correct order several times since then, but I far prefer reading O&C after YotF, it makes Maddaddam feel so much more cathartic and deserved and it really improves the pacing. The slow build up in YotF, leading to all the action and exposition in O&C and then winding down in Maddaddam and the story coming back to Toby, flows so much better as a three book narrative. Also piecing everything together with this order is much more interesting too imo.
I just had this conversation with my therapist where I said I don't think that I'm necessarily depressed, but am being acted upon by the men who move only in dimly lit halls and determine my future for me, and I feel distant from others, and don't do enough fun things. And she was like, yeah, probably.