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There are many reasons we can point to as to why we don't see changes in society that will bring a about a better place for everyone. Maybe it's because capita
by gchamonlive 2y ago
There are many reasons we can point to as to why we don't see changes in society that will bring a about a better place for everyone.
Maybe it's because capitalism doesn't allow for it, or only in its later stages and we are just not there yet.
Or maybe because there still needs to be a revolution that will feed the masses that are starving both physically and mentally.
There are many thinkers trying to point to flaws in the current way of viewing things that might be blocking us from moving forward. Byung-Chul Han, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Sandel...
I really enjoy the podcast Philosophize This, the author does a nice job of introducing many concepts that are important.
In my case, I wrote a recent essay that might fit this discussion: https://xd1.dev/2024/07/against-political-realism https://xd1.dev/2024/07/against-political-realism
In it I try to extend the concept of Capitalist Realism to the realm of politics to use it as a motivation to call for a kind action in the private sphere that could increase the odds of us having meaningful debates in the society about the kind of changes we want to bring about for the next generations to come.