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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’ - Yanis Varoufakis
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The only label I'm sort-of comfortable with is 'socialist', because it alludes to the fundamentally social nature of humanity, and to the fact that everything that makes life good is socially produced - even self-awareness.
But I tend not to label people (while not denying that 'isms', etc, can be useful in grouping related ideas, etc); nor (I hope) do I have 'an ideology' - the whole point of left-wing thinking, surely, is just that: trying to see through ideology, to look reality square in the face.
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Looks interesting:
"Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet are vampires in the new film from the Chilean director Pablo Larraín. Literally so: El Conde (The Count) drapes them in black capes and has them fly over the city, biting the necks of their victims and tearing hearts out of chests."
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I'm trying to buy all my clothes second-hand now - which would be much easier if I could sew!
But really, buying from charity shops is fantastic, isn't it? - You reuse old clothes - and the money you pay goes to some good cause too. Everybody wins!
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I was visiting a wealthy area in the UK recently (I live in France) and was very struck by the sight of a huge modern mansion - no doubt some millionaire's home - and immediately outside its gates a huge pot-hole in the public road. I should have taken a photo. It seemed to symbolise the huge transfer of wealth from the public to the private, that has ruined the UK over recent decades. But did the mansion's residents share this awareness, even as they risked their luxury car's suspension every time they left home? Who knows?
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I often wonder if people that think everybody is selfish and greedy have really never experienced love and friendship.
Did they never have a loving mother? a family, friends, good neighbours? Have they really never experienced the kindness of strangers?
nostr:npub1zh424c7u0kj55s6f0r45n7sd7gjuscvr7depepayu3z4ud2a7uqqwn7v99 "humans are inherently greedy" is just people telling on themselves. Look, just because you're a greedy sociopath doesn't mean everyone else is, most people aren't in fact. nostr:npub1qzc8ejmflltq5uuwmvurfcfd4l96t6np6c8fzgj9l2rdfheadydshtyetl
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I take every opportunity to recommend Rutger Bregman's book 'Humankind'. It's an extensive, closely argued and well-evidenced argument that most people are good - and why many people wrongly think they're not (because persuading us that we are brutish and unpredictable implies the need for a powerful ruling class to control us).
But actually it's easy to expose the weakness of the argument that humans are inherently greedy, etc... Just ask those making it if they are, in fact, themselves bad people - or their mothers, or their children. Generally, they then fall back to 'Well, I mean most people' - but then, of course, everybody that thinks humans are bad seems to think everybody they love is the exception...