middle class Hexbear redditors: “I don’t want to have kids because of my depression uwu”
eh. I mean like yeah I think some people on here buy the basic premise that giving birth to children is wrong because you can’t get their consent which in essense is giving waaaay too much credence to bourgeois-enlightenment concepts of reducing social relationships and obligations to consent and contractualism.
That being said idk this really just seems like "I dont like middle income people so I’m going to mash together the middle class desire to not have a kid to the (allegedly) middle class phenomena of having mental health issues which just seems kinda incoherent and not motivated by a productive impulse.
I am always overhearing them always talking about new innovations that can enrich their lives, I have never heard a gamerchair socialist talk about stuff like new sustainable HVAC technology or new types of fabric that can keep people cool under the looming global warming holocaust or whatever. The only thing a gamerchair will do is cry about how “hopeless” and “doomed” they are because their anti-communist wannabee bourgeois individualism (aka neoliberalism) leads to nihilism and despair
Yeah I do agree that there is too much political nihilism on hexbear. The Socialist left is bigger in America than it has been since the 60’s and there is really no value in spreading any idea that prevents people from getting organized. There are so many projects and organizations to get involved in. You can join the CPUSA, the DSA, and if you are so inclined to the IWW. If these don’t interest you then there are so many local organizing projects that are much harder to find but if you really dig into it then you can find them. Beyond that if there’s literally nothing then there has never been a better time to just try to network with people online or in your local area since there’s never been another time in the last 4 decades that people have been more receptive to socialist politics.
That being said, I’m not sure if the best way to combat left-podcast induced nihilism is to go on about it like this. It’s better to plug into local organizing and use your platform here to try to plug people in and show people that there is another way.
If you want a good socialist podcast about agriculture I recommend this https://turbonics.substack.com/
That being said idk this really just seems like "I dont like middle income people so I’m going to mash together the middle class desire to not have a kid to the (allegedly) middle class phenomena of having mental health issues which just seems kinda incoherent and not motivated by a productive impulse.
Yeah I do agree that there is too much political nihilism on hexbear. The Socialist left is bigger in America than it has been since the 60’s and there is really no value in spreading any idea that prevents people from getting organized. There are so many projects and organizations to get involved in. You can join the CPUSA, the DSA, and if you are so inclined to the IWW. If these don’t interest you then there are so many local organizing projects that are much harder to find but if you really dig into it then you can find them. Beyond that if there’s literally nothing then there has never been a better time to just try to network with people online or in your local area since there’s never been another time in the last 4 decades that people have been more receptive to socialist politics.
That being said, I’m not sure if the best way to combat left-podcast induced nihilism is to go on about it like this. It’s better to plug into local organizing and use your platform here to try to plug people in and show people that there is another way.