🌲Fæġer Mæġden🌲 on Nostr: Consider. If we were able to do away with all the nefarious elites who have a hand in ...

Consider. If we were able to do away with all the nefarious elites who have a hand in controlling our affairs, if we had a free internet, if the CIA were disbanded, if woke ‘cultural Marxists’ were put back into the silly box they used to play in, if it turned out that we’re all aliens descended from Atlantans living on a flat planet, if we could elect a good government, if we found a miraculous technological solution to the filth we have submerged our beautiful world under, if we could rationally solve all our problems and house ourselves in a gleaming white cube… well then, and so what? Would human beings then become happy, moral, egalitarian comrades? Would technology cease to demand a life of bodiless, hyper-rational alienation? Would the professional class find itself without the means to subjugate us? Would we wake up wild, vivid, free of civilised domestication and all its sense-dimming, conviviality corrupting pressures? Would anything really, meaningfully change?

No. If our world were rationally organised into one of socialist or capitalist perfection, nothing would change. Rationality cannot discover morality nor can it reveal reality, nor, despite the vain hopes of New Stoicism, does it even have any real power over emotional suffering. This is why if the world could be organised to eradicate such suffering it would be a nightmare of the insane.