Cunt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:58 am
Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:45 am
Arguing for the status quo is just serving the interests who've put profit before people for the last 400 years. You're a stoolie for Capitalism - just like they trained you to be.
Brilliant! You think I'm arguing for the status quo! Peacocking around again. No wonder I am keeping you suspended, with this kind of contemptable and deliberate misrepresentation.
I'm saying that the 'status quo' is GOING to happen, to a certain extent, whatever we do.
Yeah, I know. Arguing for the impossibility of change is arguing for the status quo. Arguing that this is just how things are is exactly what you've been socialised to think by consumer culture and the illusion of choice. You don't even think about that fact that 'the system' was designed by and for the very same interests who have convinced you there's no other way of doing things.
Cunt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:58 am
As far as being a stoolie for capitalism (he Peacocked with exemplary manners) I guess they did train me to like it. My whole life, capitalist societies have been improving the lives of almost everyone they have touched. It's been magic for human rights, eradication of poverty and reduction of crime, so yeah, I like it.
Don't you? Are you one of those folks who uses thousands of dollars worth of computers to advocate against capitalism? It sounds like it would fit in with the usual Peacocking.
Capitalism has no interest in improving anyone's life. If Capitalism was a world-improving project then nobody would be dying from malaria for the want of medication that costs less than a cent to produce, nobody would be starving while we throw away 40% of all global food production. How has Capitalism improved the lives of the peoples of Flint, Michigan, to take just one familiar example? How has Capitalism improved the lives of the global population when the top 100 companies account for 71% of greenhouse gas, CO2, and particulate emissions?
Capitalism is concerned with profit, not with the well-being of people. You're confusing the fact that you're not malnourished, disease-ridden and uneducated, that you live in a relatively ordered society with a nominally democratic system with the idea that Capitalism has provided all that specifically for you. Go and tell that to the people starving on the streets of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and see what they think about that idea. Capitalism opposed all those things tooth an claw and continues to work to undermine them today - there's no profit in making sure people have somewhere to live, enough to eat, are healthy, educated, have democratic controls over their society. .
Deny it all you like but Capitalism doesn't have your best interests at heart - it's an economic system designed to generate and horde wealth in the hand of a few entities in order to secure power and generate more wealth, etc etc, and the necessity of your participation in that project simply makes you an economic resource and, when you're no longer useful to Capital, economic cannon fodder; it makes you slave to that master. I don't want to live like a slave, but I can understand why you might.