OK, so I did a thought experiment the other day. I do these a lot so I apologize in advance if anyone finds these banal. I tend to get a lot out of them honestly.
In my experiment, I wondered, given the benefit of hindsight what should a revolutionary have done in Soviet Russia to resist the oppressive society.
My solution? If we were to be sentenced to go back in time and live in .....SOVIET RUSSIA we should do absolutely nothing about it.
Think about it. Many people risked their lives to undermine the Soviet state. Many wasted countless hours in fruitless protest. Some people even deliberately got themselves thrown in jail so that they could be a drag on resources.
But in the end it all proved mostly fruitless because what ended up toppling the Soviet state was....mere indifference. Life under the Soviets had become so lackluster that when the machinery began to topple, no one bothered to save it.
Perhaps this is what will happen to neoliberalism? If so open active resistance becomes the least logical response. Who will bother to prop up political correctness once it becomes seriously challenged? No one. Who will bother to prop up neoliberalism once it faces serious challenge? No one.
Neoliberals are powerless even to stand up to riotous basketball Americans. What will happen when other groups rise up? The whole enchilada might fall apart.
So perhaps the best thing that we can do is to simply survive, to laugh at the lunacy and to do what we can to keep our spirits up. Hand our values down to future generations. Survive and don't waste your time on measures that punish us worse than they punish the idiots. This cannot go on for ever.
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