u/SimplyTesting

A lack of nuance
In this era of eugenics
Time and time again people
That face adversity outperform
They know what it's like to feel hungry
You have to work constantly even when
You're tired even when you're sick
If it all depends on you so be it
It will be done
This has a long cost
A different kind of debt
A tenth the resources
Twice the confidence
Ten times the stress
1000x difficulty

Anyone could feel this way
Most people wouldn't bother huh
Yet for people with ASD it is so pervasive
You must excel in every regard
The pressure is too much
Sensory overload yah
Racing thoughts
Language out the window
Fully integrated universe inside out
A field of twisting and connecting strings
The knots form so quickly you end
Up tracing them while more
Appear in front of you
Sunshine rainbows
Fox mode pls

The desire for the minority
To claim space and to express identity
Is fair and just and vital to the human endeavor
We don't need to be superior to have space
We can be free and liberated and maybe
Hopefully other people can be too
In the future when they're ready
We can be more welcoming of them
Than they were of us in the past even
When it's difficult you have to speak up
There may be people that need to hear it

And it really hurts seeing so much division
Yet it's healthy too alive in a way
The tragedy of the commons
To divide and conquer only
Serves those in power so
It's important to find allies
Even when in unlikely places
Even when they are opponents
You gaze into the abyss
And it gazes into you
Don't linger and
Don't hesitate

People have many things to teach us
Of which we aren't aware or don't yet understand
So try to keep that space in yourself somewhere
That's free from borders and fighting and such
So you can still be human when it matters
When there are people that need you
Or when you need to be there for yourself
Kids do better when they're wanted and
People do better when they're cared for

Civilization is over. The experiment is finished. Our petri dish has ran its course. We see now what Socrates saw then, a democracy will succumb to its own weight, a behemoth of greed and conquest. Little Nightmares, a new rapture and cleansing can begin.

Those who still believe can cling to their facades in the hurricane: a new sweater from Tem-ew, a graphic T from Et-sea, a backpack from the Tik-Tak juju shop. Hold on to your blanky while the adults yap yap yap and don't forget your towel for when they start to panic panic panic. Wechat paypal onlyfans hellofresh flock privacy kim.com megaupload to the bay finna fbi in your onions, mission impossible beep beep gotta go fast ain't gonna quit imperialists in your breakfast cereal.

Aestheticism is the devaluing of the self to such an extent that you wear a costume with no belief no value or ideology; not a culture, an identity, but a costume. This is a way to isolate and shield one's self from criticism, from cringe. It is the death of the self as we abscond to authoritarians. We have recreated the caste system and call it freedom - the most perverse double speak of a fascist nation. Where the fuck I grew up, we dealt with kings, and we taxed the rich. The rich paid for our wars; insured their own cities; funded their own ventures. And as for the people, they lived from the land they stole, they built shit, and they were stupid as fuck; but they worked hard at it, and most often they learned from their mistakes.

Now I look at the night sky and see several drones overhead with blinking white and red lights, more satellites each day to watch over me, and a-sea of windmills with blinking red lights gasping for life on the horizon. What is this all for? The Canadian neoliberal is unphased, nothing like their American or British counterparts. Trudeau said there is "no core identity in Canada", and yet the quiet part is left unsaid. The Canadian identity is: straight, white, educated, christian, consumerist, capitalist, neoliberal, and superior. That sounds like something I've heard before? Besides, the Canadians are shoring up their maple syrup reserves, have a policing system with almost zero fiduciary oversight, and an influential middle class that would very much like to keep their way of life if only it weren't for those pesky tariffs. But they'll be okay, they can trade with Europe. 😂

Last I checked the weather doesn't respect your borders, and as they say mother nature - my girl Persephone - she is a cruel mistress. Besides, the gods aren't concerned with our neo-feudalism king of the hill hull-a-bull-ew master chief cortana in your pocket rampancy more like idiocracy. Microslop layoff tak-over leveraged buyout skin and gut fucking vultures Bill Gates and Alfred Nobel are spineless cowards you got it right.

I can understand why the religious pray, they understand we are a fallen species, and yet they are resigned defeatists - the original doomers are the christians and you can quote me on that. Talk about nihilistic, acting like this is a waiting room for some delugional unverified place. Love thy neighbor, rape and pillage as the crusader.

Know your history. This is not new. The same powers, the same strategies, on the biggest scale. We can not be like this. This is not how life can be. Connect with your ancestry: for 690,000 years we lived in small communities and tribes. There was still aestheticism, violence, power, stupidity, and delugion. But it was not like this. It was difficult, yet rewarding. Our adversity was not so much against our own neighbors, our own people, but that of nature, and of sickness. In today's time either we learn moderation, we abscond to authoritarians, or Persephone and her parents Zeus and Demeter will smight every last one of us for challenging their authority as actual material gods.

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So what's next? Dystopia, culture, ambition, peace? The outcomes are as follows: authoritarianism, robotic overlords benevolent or otherwise, biological / nuclear extermination, neo-war as sports / GDP / human sacrifice, a middling purgatory such as the dark ages, living inside simulated universes due to boredom, an actual natural disaster like a solar flare erasing our atmosphere, or maybe possibly just unfathomably ... ... Peace.

The thing is, a few of us are likely to survive in many of these situations. Isn't it interesting thinking of what those people might do? How do you create a culture after something like this? One that can resist growth into states, or manage violence to stifle the flames before they grow into the largest forest fire on record. People think of this as an irrelevant distant thought experiment, yet it captures our imagination. The second time around is a common trope in media, and the post-apocalypse isn't so far away as it once seemed. The Greeks learned of this 2000 years ago, and now maybe it's our turn to do the same.

I will write soon of 1) how to preserve knowledge into the long-term, 2) how to cope with trauma in a hostile environment and 3) effective methods for the proletariat to regain and keep power.

I'd like to share this infographic given the times in which we live. It details the stages that build into a genocide, specifically for the Holocaust. It's not the most readable, yet the content is quality, and I'll include the text below:

• Classification – The differences between people are not respected. There’s a division of ‘us’ and ‘them’ which can be carried out using stereotypes, or excluding people who are perceived to be different.
• Symbolisation – This is a visual manifestation of hatred. Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear yellow stars to show that they were ‘different’.
• Discrimination – The dominant group denies civil rights or even citizenship to identified groups. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, made it illegal for them to do many jobs or to marry German non-Jews.
• Dehumanisation – Those perceived as ‘different’ are treated with no form of human rights or personal dignity. During the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Tutsis were referred to as ‘cockroaches’; the Nazis referred to Jews as ‘vermin’.
• Organisation – Genocides are always planned. Regimes of hatred often train those who go on to carry out the destruction of a people.
• Polarisation – Propaganda begins to be spread by hate groups. The Nazis used the newspaper Der Stürmer to spread and incite messages of hate about Jewish people.
• Preparation – Perpetrators plan the genocide. They often use euphemisms such as the Nazis’ phrase ‘The Final Solution’ to cloak their intentions. They create fear of the victim group, building up armies and weapons.
• Persecution – Victims are identified because of their ethnicity or religion and death lists are drawn up. People are sometimes segregated into ghettos, deported or starved and property is often expropriated. Genocidal massacres begin.
• Extermination – The hate group murders their identified victims in a deliberate and systematic campaign of violence. Millions of lives have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition through genocide.
• Denial – The perpetrators or later generations deny the existence of any crime.

With growing awareness in recent times, it has become apparent that peace is not possible under the flag of a bordered nation. Every action we perform is integrated within their war. We can resist, yet revolt is squashed, and revolution believed unthinkable. This leads many to feel a sense of dread or despair, as if there is no escape from this dystopia. However, every nation falls, every dynasty collapses under its own weight. There is always hope, no matter how distant or small it may seem at the time.

I'm of the belief that for many, they become weary as I am, and they tire of the constant fighting. It is exhausting and intentionally so: easier to tire your opponent than to engage them directly. Every person, every exchange, every day - it's grating. Many people see this in one form or another. And after long enough, they decide this isn't worthwhile: and some quiet quit, some become bitter, some turnto escapism, and yet still some choose to be done with it. For these people, their suicide is their form of protest: the conditions in which they live are so deplorable they decide to squander the miracle of life; an act believed so egregious it demands recognition; an act that is, truly, one of mercy -- and open defiance.

This is, regrettably, a normal part of the collapse of a civilization. The stages are as follows: adversity, spirituality, courage, liberation, abundance, complacency, apathy, and despair. (The acronym ASCLACAD is effective for remembering this cycle.) Adversity pushes us to our breaking point, demanding ever more of us. Spirituality offers a haven from this harsh reality and hope for a better future. Courage is necessary to obtain and protect our agency/independence. Liberation is freedom in the truest sense of the word, to not only have courage but to successfully conquer our adversity... In this era we know of abundance, and all will eat their fill. The hard labor that got us here will become an afterthought - eventually leading to our complacency. And as what we worked for becomes more distant, we lose that spark, and we begin to feel apathetic towardsit all. We feel dejected and inconsequential as we watch the world around us crumble in despair. And finally... the cycle repeats, a new adversity to overcome.

Those who don't know their history, are doomed to repeat it. This has all happened before, although not quite in this way - nevertheless many of the same themes reemerge. Humans have a strong propensity for action: something needs to be done, but what's the right way to approach it? Very few people can competently answer this at any given time, and rarely are they the people in positions of power. Consequently we oft follow inept leadership, whom lacks the character to withstand such a situation. We are all sovereign people, their war isn't our own, and yet we are caught in the middle: eventually we will be forced to reconcile the societal cost of our folly. All is not lost, this is not utopia, shit is fucked up, and even though dark times are ahead, know this too shall pass, we can resist despair with all our might.