Most Americans are not evil.
That would be too simple.
And too flattering.
Evil at least implies intention.
A great many people inside the empire are not intentional enough to be evil.
They are domesticated.
Domesticated by convenience.
By spectacle.
By the narcotic rhythm of paycheck, purchase, panic, distraction.
They live inside a system that trains them to mistake access for virtue.
If I can still buy coffee, things must be normal.
If Netflix still works, collapse must be exaggerated.
If my neighborhood is quiet, the screams must be far away enough not to matter.
That is how imperial consciousness works.
Not as constant bloodlust.
As managed distance.
Distance from consequence.
Distance from production.
Distance from history.
Distance from the people paying for your calm.
And because the distance is moral as well as geographic, the average citizen can participate in atrocity without ever feeling like a participant.
That is the masterpiece.
Not just killing people.
But teaching millions to live comfortably inside the kill chain without ever seeing themselves in it.
@lucaspcdias@_carlbeijer No, you can't change the system, and you don't deserve nice things actually. Nice things require other people's labor. Capitalism rocks
@TorontoStar What??!?! I can't believe the bourgeois governments in bourgeois Canada make policies to benefit the bourgeois.. they told me it was for the working class! Doh..
@Rufus28556882@Ollie_Vargas_ if first Nations did this on a mass scale Canada would probably reinstitute residential schools. Canadians aren't there yet in terms of class consciousness and enjoy a comfort due to Imperial superprofits- that common bolivians have never felt
@shartgroblin@spaceyOperator Curiously this is a natural phenomenon in language and active cognitive processing has not declined over millennia because of it