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Originally Posted by Raev
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No, a person's material conditions are formed by their ideology.
And if you look at the mental/emotional/moral/spiritual (whatever word floats your boat) condition of the United States it is easy to see that the spiritual collapse has occurred first and is the driving force. Marxism is for useful idiots. |
Thanks for sharing the link, I remember seeing the video years ago but had forgotten the name of the guy. But even at the time I remember thinking of how prevalent it was at the time, and now its down right frightening how real it is.
Decided to read through the comments though and one in particular stuck with me and pretty much perfectly sums up how I feel about the current situation.
"I first watched this interview (the full 90 minutes) years ago, maybe 2011 or 2012, but it still shocked me how rapidly things were deteriorating. When shit started to hit the fan in 2020 with the pandemic, I was worried about how the year would play out, and knew we'd never go back to the way things were before. Then that video of George Floyd's death exploded, and the US seems to be on the precipice of outright civil war. As of early July it's a relatively small faction of the far left in fairly open revolt, but the frightening thing is that almost nobody seems to realize what's happening.
I've found several people who share my feeling that this shitstorm feels premature - I think the ideological subversion hasn't quite permeated deeply enough yet to reach the critical mass, and the pandemic & economic crisis seems to have blown this brewing revolution into the open before it was ready to happen organically. Might sound crazy to say this in the current moment, but I think we should probably count ourselves fortunate this is happening the way it is now. I think we stand a much better chance of surviving it than we would if it had been able to stew another 10 years or so before blowing open."