precarian
24th July 2013, 10:01
It should be clear to all that capitalism is a perverse economic system which strangles the human spirit, rendering impossible the free development and flourishing of human life. Everyone who is subject to the alienating savagery of wage slavery surely knows this.
Additionally, the rise of neoliberalism has eroded our ability to salvage even the minutest shred of personal autonomy from capitalism, institutionalising a set of practices which seeks to harness our entire social personality for the benefit of private profit. Every aspect of existence is now subject to the diktats of the economy. If you don't abide by these new rules, then you'll be cast into destitution.
My question is this: Knowing that our lives are being needlessly upended by capital, knowing that we're being callously exploited every waking hour, how does one manage to carry on participating in this farce without lobotomising oneself? Couldn't it be said that, in doing so, we participate in our own immiseration?
Indeed, lobotomising themselves is probably what most people actually do - thus explaining why neoliberalism has went unchallenged for decades. "Ignorance is bliss", after all. The fact that people have to turn themselves into automatons in order to function is an indictment of the system in itself!
Seriously, I have no idea how anyone can possibly be content to shuffle through the mind-numbing tedium of daily life under capitalism without questioning things. It is my contention that no intelligent person can survive this idiocy without idiotizing themselves.
This, in my view, is where any revolutionary critique of the system should be focused.
Do fellow revleft users agree?
Additionally, the rise of neoliberalism has eroded our ability to salvage even the minutest shred of personal autonomy from capitalism, institutionalising a set of practices which seeks to harness our entire social personality for the benefit of private profit. Every aspect of existence is now subject to the diktats of the economy. If you don't abide by these new rules, then you'll be cast into destitution.
My question is this: Knowing that our lives are being needlessly upended by capital, knowing that we're being callously exploited every waking hour, how does one manage to carry on participating in this farce without lobotomising oneself? Couldn't it be said that, in doing so, we participate in our own immiseration?
Indeed, lobotomising themselves is probably what most people actually do - thus explaining why neoliberalism has went unchallenged for decades. "Ignorance is bliss", after all. The fact that people have to turn themselves into automatons in order to function is an indictment of the system in itself!
Seriously, I have no idea how anyone can possibly be content to shuffle through the mind-numbing tedium of daily life under capitalism without questioning things. It is my contention that no intelligent person can survive this idiocy without idiotizing themselves.
This, in my view, is where any revolutionary critique of the system should be focused.
Do fellow revleft users agree?