This article evoked memories of living through the dissolution of the USSR, an experience characterized by gradual deterioration rather than a single cataclysmic event.
Each day brought new disheartening news and incremental decline, until eventually reaching a tipping point where the cumulative weight of issues overwhelmed the entire social structure, causing it to unravel.
Looking back, what was most interesting was how effortlessly one could acclimate to a new status quo amidst mounting challenges. As long as issues accumulated at a pace manageable enough for adaptation, individuals would readily embrace alterations in their lives and continue onward. This widespread phenomenon served to stifle any substantial efforts aimed at halting the descent into decline.
The rest is fine but at the end of the article the author goes over what to do. “Demand more responsibility from our leaders.”
We’re still doing this pablum? If you really wanna do something, you gotta be a communist, you gotta join an org, you gotta work towards some kind of dual power. You think petitions, or even marches are doing permanent damage to capitalism without serious worker orgs behind them?
Indeed, these trite and self-evident statements, such as “demand more responsibility,” ring hollow when the author doesn’t provide concrete examples of how this should be implemented. The crux of the issue lies not in people’s reluctance to hold their leaders accountable, but rather in their lack of influence within the system, which is deliberately structured to maintain their powerlessness.
Feels like another layer of denial
Right, and that’s what prevents meaningful action necessary to arrest the crisis.
Besides the right turn in to a brick wall at the end (probably a requirement to get the article posted tbh) I feel this a lot. All social interactions feel wrong because everyone is afraid to talk about reality. If you get to close to a real topic everyone is socially trained to change the subject to avoid talking about something uncomfortable.
It’s the whole emperor’s new clothes phenomenon.
damn this sucks someone should do something about it
I keep reading the title as “We’ve Hit Peak Daniel” and my brainrot tells me to comment “Damn, Daniel”
