hex@Hex@kolektiva.social
There is no electoral path to end genocide. There is no electoral path to stop, or probably even to slow, climate change. The political system is utterly incapable of addressing any large scale problem, from COVID to microplastics, because benign governments cannot protect themselves against the financial sector and malignant ones are the financial sector.
This is not actually a problem, if we realize that governments have never existed to protect us but rather have always existed to keep us from protecting ourselves. They have never existed to facilitate coordination between people, but to control and limit it.
As Americans move closer to making the choice between a candidate who grudgingly supports genocide or a candidate who enthusiastically supports genocide, it's time to imagine what society would look like if we could actually shape it. What would your daily life look like? What would the world look like? What would be the priorities of humanity if we all got to choose together?
We have to work backwards from what we want to figure out how to make it happen. Fear is a powerful motivator for destructive actions, but it suppresses creative and constructive ones. Authoritarianism traps us in a fear spiral. We must dream to escape.
We have to start with hope to motivate us to build the world we want to see. Hope, a vision of something good, has always been the thing that moves humanity forward. Hope motivates creative action, resistance, and resilience.
hex@Hex@kolektiva.social
Hope feels crazy right now, in the face of everything. But that frenetic energy, resisting against impossible odds, is exactly the thing we need.
Hegemony is about controlling what is normal and sounds sane. It's about controlling what is possible. It's about making you feel crazy for not fitting in. Ultimately it's about making everyone feel uncomfortable about themselves, and making everyone feel alone in that discomfort.