So it begins, the Christmas season.
Next the ultra 4k stream of a crackling fireplace around 2am, the somewhat-sober-minded late night debate began in earnest (for it cannot not properly be the holidays until they have). To be sure, it was last night when found myself defending the premise of free-market capitalism to my younger irish twin.
Let's get another beer, said I.
But just look at all the greed, all the manipulation and control, all the poverty in the world, he lamented. Capitalism must be the culprit because that's what got us here, right?
Not quite, I retorted. It's more the globalists. They dessicated the global south and exploit their cheap labour, continually, with the help of central banks and their fiat currency. Capitalism, on the contrary, afforded you all of the luxuries in your life, your phone, the couch your sitting on etc.
The globalists, I said, want you brainwashed. They want you to buy into the doom and gloom of inequality, climate change and quantum, because it distracts you from seeking your freedom and pursuing your vision for a better world. If you bought what they've been selling you, then you forfeited before the battle has even begun!
UFO's , of course, also entered into the conversation, which I also think about as another distracting narrative to keep the masses hypnotized. What's further from our control besides these other-worldly creatures? Show any man something extraordinary as the extraterrestrial and watch as he relinquishes his resistance to all the present absurdity here on earth! What can make him feel more powerless than the thought of the voyeurism of unknown-unknowns. Anyway, so I argued.
Be free and seek your truth! Have a vision of your life, I pleaded. Don't be distracted by the illusion of a so-called "collective good," especially such a myth that this can only be achieved at the expense of your individual freedom.
From my experience, his nihilism is this endemic of gen-zeers. What I've observed while watching them on tik-tok and Instagram is a constant bombardment of "citizen journalism," documenting ghastly world affairs, which, each on its own is much greater than any one person has the ability of mentally processing. But throw innumerable 30-second clips of these ad-infinitum at a their developing brains and what do you get but a stupefied mass of nihilists. I digress.
Over these holidays, I expect many similar gloomy conversations.
Here's hoping I'll succeed in guiding these using gentle persuasion instead of force. My main thesis is this:
- do not underestimate the power of the imagination!
In other words, do not be persuaded into believing the myth that you were born in chains, only to die in chains.
Wish me luck!
A quote to leave you with:
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” --Frederick Douglass (emphasis my own)