I’m seriously getting really disillusioned with everyone around me. I love my family and friends, but they are Ameri-brained as fuck and it’s hard to ignore.
First, yesterday I went to a sports game. The US national anthem was played and I stayed seated and played on my phone as always. Nothing special, I don’t make a scene or anything, just refuse to participate. Everyone else of course is looking at me weird and one of my friends was like “dude points at flag stand up” and I just shrug and say “I’m good” and go back to what I was doing. He didn’t give me too much shit but he rolled his eyes and the usual. Just couldn’t get past how people can know what my country is doing (I post about it a lot) and still show such blind support. It’s not a huge deal, obviously just a fucking flag but still.
Second, was talking to my family about revolution and change and they made some good points. They pointed out that a lot of people in USA are too well-off materially to put their necks out regarding serious change. But then they kinda started defending it like that was justified. They brought up people losing scholarships at Harvard because of the Palestine support rally. That’s shitty, but I still honestly feel like that’s what I would do and what the right thing is. Fuck my “successful” future, a successful future is making change any means necessary. The people in Gaza don’t have scholarships to lose and try telling them you didn’t speak up because you were afraid of losing it. Idk. Maybe I’m inconsiderate and it’s easy for me to say because I’m younger and have less to lose but it’s just like bro why are people so hesitant? I can’t imagine sticking my head in the sand, regardless of my material reality. I have a great life materially right now and I am willing to lose it for change. Not trying to be like moral high ground but just ye.
“If you’re asked to make a commitment at the age of 20 and you say I don’t want to make that commitment only because of the simple reason that I’m too young to die I want to live a little bit longer, what you did is you’re dead already” - Fred Hampton
Idk maybe too ranty but I just feel like I’m the only one that I know irl who’s really about it like that. Outside of my comrades organizing ofc I mean like personal life. But then again comrades = best friends so anyways I’ll stfu thx
I guess you’re right, yeah.
Seems like it’s… by design perhaps? Lol
But fr it’s our duty to resist that doom shit. Things are horrible and will be for some time, yes. Collapse is likely. But! There’s always a but. We can do something about it. You’re trippin if you think they don’t want us to be hopeless. That’s how colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, all the evil -isms thrive.
I suspect the reason the BLM uprisings were so historically huge was because COVID showed that things can change and that the ruling class can’t control everything. The uprisings ultimately didn’t lead to any change so people have gone back to keeping their heads down, but the opportunity is there. I don’t think Americans will be willing to do something like that again until there is another fundamental rupture.
Our job is to be organized and ready for when that rupture comes and turn it into a revolutionary moment.