It seems like nobody is willing here in the US to actually throw themselves into a revolt or meaningful change because our conditions are just good enough.
I still see everyone around me going for the best social status, the best job, the best car, the biggest house, and completely ignoring all the major flashing red lights.
I feel like a crazy person, like one of those people that’s missing the point. I feel surrounded by lunatics and typically that means you’re the crazy one but I just know I can’t be in this situation, it makes no sense.
Why is it like this? Why do I feel surrounded by NPCs? I can’t connect to pretty much anyone here. It all seems so trivial.
I don’t want to sound elitist or anything I just can’t see how people still don’t see the full picture
What to do?
Depends what you mean, but I don’t think people should be willing to throw themselves into a revolt. First they need to ‘organize, organize, organize’, in the words of Kwame Ture.
They should want meaningful change, but they won’t for as long as the majority is in the labour aristocracy and benefits so much from imperialism. Use your effort for something more productive. Bring class consciousness to those who are ready for it and want change. I can’t remember the exact quote, but Lenin said, to paraphrase: ‘Haters gonna hate; better fewer but better.’
In a way, it doesn’t really matter. I’m a little nihilistic with this kind of thing: it will take a long time, but the US cannot survive it’s own contradictions. No empire can. It’s just a matter of time and while people in the US could hasten it’s dissolution, nobody in the US can prevent it, whether individuals see and care about the flashing red lights or not. It doesn’t matter much because none of us can do anything alone.
The most important things are getting experience organizing, creating communities of care, and supporting the most oppressed peoples, because they already have it a lot worse and are going to get it a lot worse until meaningful change arrives. That means being ready to argue, etc, against imperialism and in favour of neocolonial subjects outside the US, even when the ‘radical orgs’ argue for a greater slice of the imperial profits. Within the US (looking from the outside at least), that seems to be humbly joining the Indigenous struggle and the struggle against the military-prison industrial complex. The former, especially, is organized, alive, and kicking.