FanonFan [comrade/them, any]

reddit culture sucks and I left it behind as a social media site a while ago.

still have to use site:reddit.com to get half decent search results tho

Regarding the latter concern, I think a lot of this type of thinking comes from misconceptions about how evolution works, largely perpetuated by our culture to be fair.

But most people think evolution is an external pressure on the level of the individual. Which, it is, kinda-- that’s one scope of evolution. But evolutionary pressure happens on all levels in different ways: one family against others, one tribe against others, one social group against others, one species against others, etc. And networks of cooperation are just as influential as networks of competition, all happening at the same time in a churning mass of energies.

So rather than thinking that individual humans are losing hardiness to evolution, think of it as our species gaining hardiness through specialization and technology, evolution taking place outside of our individual bodies. It’s why we have language instead of tusks.

I mean, malevolent to the degree that their interests are diametrically opposed to our interests. To the NSA, more avenues of data collection are good, so they will do what they can to expand. To Amazon, more profit is good, so they will sell as many devices as possible and sell as much private information as possible for as much money as possible. To police and federal agencies, more arrests and more political control is good, so they will use information gathered by these devices to the extent allowed by law (and further).

If you’re someone who values privacy and freedom then those entities’ actions could be called malevolent, even if they’re just acting in their best interest. If you don’t care about those things then it’s probably no big deal I guess.

Honestly sounds like a high school argumentative essay lmao

Damn gave me a tinge of that feeling in the legs and stomach from one of those “flying” dreams. Been a while since I’ve had one of them.

I mean there’s quite a few that are at least nominally socialist, and a lot of growing socialist orgs. The socialist movement isn’t dead. But we certainly live in the era of global capitalism.

I just want something walkable and bikable with access to most necessities and social interaction, without costing twice my income or being surrounded by pigs.

Don’t think that exists in the US. Might move to Philly or Chicago or something anyway

damn this sounds really good