The problem is the top is captured and has been for a very long time. The difference now is it’s mask-off and has lost the capacity to pretend to be public serving.
As the history of labor has shown us, it is very hard to organize bottom-up without leadership getting compromised or killed.
Before it was kings and queens. Haves have been shitting on have nots since the beginning of time. Our system doesn’t work.
A silver lining is that balkanizing into technostates means that reform should be easier on a small scale than it is in a gigantic country.
Edit: maybe there is no silver lining since North Korea has not made much progress on the humanitarian front. I wish we had something to lool forward to though.
The problem is the top is captured and has been for a very long time. The difference now is it’s mask-off and has lost the capacity to pretend to be public serving.
As the history of labor has shown us, it is very hard to organize bottom-up without leadership getting compromised or killed.
Before it was kings and queens. Haves have been shitting on have nots since the beginning of time. Our system doesn’t work.
A silver lining is that balkanizing into technostates means that reform should be easier on a small scale than it is in a gigantic country.
Edit: maybe there is no silver lining since North Korea has not made much progress on the humanitarian front. I wish we had something to lool forward to though.
Cuba has made some inroads into mutualistic society. It’s the primary reason the US has sanctioned it so long and now is thinking about colonizing.