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elainemorisi · 2 years ago

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definitely a large helping of I dunno, coping, probably. but jesus christ, in some ways the steep slide into blatantly obvious evil, ruinous, cruelty-as-point shit of the past several years is starting to convince me that some version of a milquetoast utopian future is possible, actually, in a way I have never believed before. because actually like, yeah, a fuckton of current problems would diminish significantly if We As A Society prioritized different things, in a pretty top down, structure of bureaucracy and government and systems, independent of personal virtue or revolutionary enlightenment, way

#yeah yeah I don't believe in evil as a thing it's still a useful shorthand sometimes #I will always believe personal virtue is bullshit #I have never fully believed that restructuring is bullshit; I love restructuring. but like.#I think it's the scales falling from the eyes re: genuine good-faith disagreements with the other side?#like not in a 'gasp! Reagan didn't really believe he was helping!' way #like to be clear I in absolutely no way think the milquetoast utopian future is remotely likely #but it's just like... there is absolutely no reason a substantially similar nation in a substantially similar world #could not make a massive investment in I don't know let's say K-12 teacher training + paying a la mid 20th century R&D #and green energy and begin to aggressively redesign away from the car and single payer and yadayadayada #and no vast Enlightenment Of The Soul would necessarily follow or actually that much precede #and like I dunno I have always believed in the power of The Right Structures and idiocy of the military budget etc etc #so I can't quite put my finger on what I am saying is different here #but shrug! feels different #there is definitely much more hate in my heart because all this is so relatively straightforward NOT in fact asking much of anyone and yet #but also even more pessimism and dispassion than the large amounts there've always been #I've just never really believed in The Possibility Man y'know #in vastly different imaginings yes and in meaningful improvements to reality yes #even when feeling generous to the theoretical maybenever of enlightening revolution!#but not that bit in the middle I guess

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