| ▲ | rexpop 2 hours ago | |
> Now, let us enjoy the end, however it may come. This sort of nihilism/defeatism always irks me. It's so selfish, so privileged. Tell my starved, murdered ancestors "let us enjoy the end" of their era of stability's denoument. And, truly, it is not the end. Inconveniently, many—if not most—of us will survive. Will continue on. And it's for the betterment of those who come after us that we ought to toil a little, and not indulge in this childish, self-interested to nihilism. marginalized populations have repeatedly survived past "apocalypses" not through aesthetic surrender, but through the deliberate, daily reproduction of the commons, ie through pooling resources, sustaining life for its own sake, and preserving collective memory. Yielding to fashionable doomism merely validates the oppressor's narrative that the future is already decided. A superstition of doom is no different from a superstition of inevitable progress; both models rely on an abstract determinism that strips humans of agency, that encourages the us to accept suffering as unalterable destiny or "the will of God" rather than an artificial, historical barrier. So, I agree with a lot of what OP is saying, but I think they're a jerk. | ||