The problem of this country is systemic and the hyperindividualistic, factionist nature of its collective mindset that pervade not only the area of politics but every aspect of life. The malignant system is still an inheritance and continuation of its colonized existence.
Children are suffering, not only in Palestine, all over the world. Under the captivity of inequality, hypocrisy, injustice.
The so-called 'civilized' West, the destruction, colonialism, greed it has brought about. He captured the poorest people in the world's richest continent. Even clean water is the biggest luxury for them.
But, this world order will, of course, change one day.
The beautiful Habiba al-Askari is one of 6,000 amputations in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the conflict. Imagine that 4,000 of these are children. And you can imagine that Gaza has the highest percentage of child amputees relative to its population, making it the country with the largest concentration of amputee children in the world.
This reality paints a very bleak picture of the future. Whether we like it or not, amputation represents a societal disability more than an individual one. This means that a society already burdened with problems has been burdened with a serious, chronic issue that will undoubtedly reshape it in the future, or perhaps it already has.
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s hanging out with a bunch of really smart activist punk types, people that had read every book about revolution etc. They said you'll know when society is about to collapse because everything will jut become more and more expensive day by day
Some of you take these jobs way too seriously. No job is worth snitching on coworkers, skipping breaks, coming in on your days off, working unpaid overtime, or refusing to use your PTO or call out. Especially not for dead-end jobs with zero room for growth.
It genuinely makes no sense to me why so many older people get angry about remote work or the four-day week. Why are you so desperate for younger people to be just as exhausted and miserable as you were?
New video explaining how capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries.
This is why the U.S. is always at war and has over 800 military bases worldwide to ensure corporations can keep extracting resources from these countries.
(AI or Gen AI, I doubt if they're still much different from each other at this point because both operate as commodities under the capitalistic system.)
"Capitalism hasn't provided any innovations that have allowed us to consume our way out of our problems" Skeptical of the idea that capitalism was ever based on the idea of solving the 'world's problems'. It had that pretense during the first waves of the industrialist age, but
One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it's the last "humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems" narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don't need to dismantle the socioeconomic system we built that is destroying our biosphere and driving us to our doom.
Embedded in this logic is the same baseless assumption that has been plaguing us this entire time: that there are effective-yet-profitable solutions to be found. That we can simply let the free market deliver us desirable products that will both (A) cause us to stop cannibalizing our ecosystem and (B) create billionaires and trillionaires. Capitalism hasn't provided any innovations that have allowed us to consume our way out of our problems thus far, but because we've got these complex new AI technologies now, we can allow ourselves to move this entirely faith-based assumption into the purview of our new gods.
But that's just it: it's an assumption based on blind faith. There is no reason to believe we'll ever come up with technologies that are conducive to human and environmental thriving which also generate shareholder profits. Generally profits are generated by producing and consuming more products, which is exactly what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.
What this means is that capitalism has no ability to solve the problems we're coming up against as a species. There is no way to compete and consume our way out of the hole we dug through competition and consuming.
We need new systems. Human behavior cannot continue to be driven by competition and the pursuit of profit. We need to move into collaboration with each other and with our biosphere if we are to survive into the future as a species, and we will be unable to do this if we are excluding all possible solutions that don't generate revenue for the capitalist class.
AI is for many people just a psychological box that allows us to avoid facing this uncomfortable truth, because as Mark Fisher said, “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” It's easier to imagine billionaire tech companies creating AI gods who will serve us up magical solutions to our urgent existential dilemmas which also facilitate continued economic growth than it is to imagine moving into collaboration-based systems where human behavior isn't driven by the pursuit of profit.
But that's just a sign of how insane our species has become. It's a symptom of our collective madness.
We need to wake up. We need to get real. It's adaptation or extinction time for us as a species, and that fork in the road is approaching very quickly.
Also, I highly doubt the powers-that-be are doing things in sincerity. I think they know what they're doing and know how destructive it is; maybe, the destruction is the point all along. Their 'synthetic cities' and 'civilization' won't be sustainable; they're driven by nihilism.
Jewish actress Natalie Portman has joined +350 filmmakers in calling for no Israeli should be banned from entering film festivals because of their Israeli identity
Zionists didn’t come to Palestine as immigrants and become part of the multi-faith communities living there; instead they came as conquerors and colonizers and have been at war since their arrival because of this. Zionism was and remains explicitly a colonial project.