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We can surely learn a lot by looking at the past, but it would be foolish to apply it 1:1 to the present/past. I feel like all the big utopian ideologies that
by An0mammall 6y ago
We can surely learn a lot by looking at the past, but it would be foolish to apply it 1:1 to the present/past.
I feel like all the big utopian ideologies that dominated the minds of people around WWI have more or less disappeared, replaced by money.
- war1025 6y agoMy personal feeling is that the pendulum is very much swinging back towards ideology and the feeling that we need to "purify" society, often through state-sanctioned violence.
- TurkishPoptart 6y agoIn Adam Curtis' newest documentary series, called "Can't Get You Outta My Mind", he looks to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to identify two competing ideologies: the geopolitics of money, and nationalism. The Serbs and the Russian nationalists failed and were pulled into the orbit of the oligarchs into the globalized world of Big Money. In the absence of fascism and communism, it seems countries can only swing on the pendulum between "nationalism" and "globalism".
- An0mammall 6y agoThe documentary in part inspired my comment, it was (as most of his stuff) very worthwhile to watch!
- TurkishPoptart 6y agoFor those curious, here's part 1/6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME The other parts keep getting kicked off YouTube for copyright yadda yadda, but they can be found.
- An0mammall 6y agoI guess everyone experiences it differently, but in my "bubble" most people are severely disillusioned with any utopian ideologies or concepts. A dystopian future of some cyberpunk flavour seems inevitable. Of course this is a very biased view and probably not reflective of reality at all.
- the-dude 6y agoYou mean UBI?