this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
55 points (98.2% liked)
doomer
925 readers
119 users here now
What is Doomer? :(
It is a nebulous thing that may include but is not limited to Climate Change posts or Collapse posts.
Include sources when applicable for doomer posts, consider checking out [email protected] once in awhile.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Community is the real problem.
People don't feel close to other people in modernised places. That makes it hard to organise collective action or sell collective messages.
Oh, you bring up an excellent point.
With rising fascism, has anyone else felt themselves grow more misanthropic? I’m not saying this is a good thing, but this is a personal problem I’m having…which logically means I don’t try to build any community where I can, even online.
This likely has cascading effects on society at large, because people then become more and more callous because they assume everyone is an asshole and…..ohhhh look at that I’m describing the base and superstructure again.
Not misanthropic, but I'm feeling more hopeless toward people in the imperial core, especially the "middle class" treatlerites. The optimist in me says that all that's needed is to activate the class consciousness in them and then a real revolution could happen. However I'm starting to give up hope as capitalism is just designed to deflect all alienation towards commodity consumption and imperialism is designed so that stopping the exploitation of the third world means less treats, which apparently is a huge deal breaker for all of them. . People get very uncomfortable whenever you broach those topics. The banality of it all also depresses me, as people still talk about whether AR is going to replace smartphones, or AI doing some bullshit in the future as it destroys the environment, and not whether we'll ever get a society that can house and feed everyone.
All revolutionary potential seems deflected at this anti-elitism which is totally non-materialist and just about what the last podcast episode you listened to said to believe in.
Is this what a third worldist believes in? I think I am becoming one.