2026-09-22 13:17 UTC
The insidious thing about capitalist realism is that it instills in people this belief that our exploitative, unequal, unjust, competitive, and antagonistic society is the best we can get. That this is the only “real” option and anything else would be worse. But this is a deterministic cynicism that actually creates the conditions it claims are innate.
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@Erebus_Amauro@ohai.social 2026-09-22 13:55
@benlockwood@ecoevo.social It is not only cynical. Inside its own logic, its neccessary to ensure no other system could ever posibly be proposed as alternative, no matter how bad things go. Beyond that, the purpose of it, its just shield the powerful to remain as it is.
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@krapp@krapp.masto.host 2026-09-22 17:10
@benlockwood@ecoevo.social If I never hear "capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the others" again it will be too soon. It's like a cognitohazard, you can *hear* minds shutting off whenever that quote shows up.