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Surprised to read so many answers talking about capitalism, social media and wealth concentration. But no one mentioned that we're at an unprecedented point in history of mankind. Ecological collapse, the lightening fast rise of AI. No example of past historical processes can be very useful in this very unique context.

And don't forget that with AI and, coming fast, robots, humans will not be needed for labor anymore. Most of you might feel this is rubbish about something you think is science fiction. I suggest you think again.

Think again and you will quickly realize that the future is not rosy for 99.5% of us.

Humans are not perfect, they evolved into what they are now very very slowly. Technology surpassed that and we've learned how to manipulate the flaws in humans to control the actions of the masses. The sad part is it isn't even difficult, it's very easy to convince people to act against their interests if you get them to associate the desired action with their baser instincts: sex, resources, security.

When a flaw can be exploited, we exploit it. But exploiting it is evil.

You can chalk it up to humans being inherently evil, but it's just difficult to fight against our inherent flaws, against the animal instincts which drive us and especially the less educated.

Because they're evil. Rather, they don't place the same constraints on themselves that a good person places on themselves.

What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

If you did not understand that the US was the evil force in the world all along, then your new feeling is mostly based on the previous internalization that countries resisting US evil were the evil ones, and that the US now picking wars on allies that it can easily win, and giving up on wars it cannot win. Colonial rulerships supporting US evil, were also deeply explicitly evil and subjugating their people's prosperity with disinformation and subjugation.

Inside the US, Zionist first rule was always a factor, but never as important as last election cycle. Oligarchy/media siding with the most zionist candidate, is simply ensuring the naked totalitarianism we must now endure. That the US has shifted the targets of its evil, does not change its nature. Replacing Presidential subjugation of allies with CIA subversive control of allies may not be as effective in force multiplication of evil, but it is just breaking your previous feelings/geopolitical illusions of "good"/values based alliances.

Life isn't a movie. The good guys rarely win irl.

Evil has always dominated. Look into history and... yea

Monarchies ruled the world, religions brainwash people, witchhunts, wars, famine, and slavery, all the evils was 10 times as bad. We are living in the most peaceful time in history (well... aside from the Climate Change 🙃)

Social media, and mass communications make everything seem worse than it actually is.

Depend on what evil is.

Because it is. In many ways this is the West getting what was coming to it, but in any case you have rising evil and collaborationist "good" that's too weak-willed or out of touch to stop it. Then you have the real good bickering among itself and too far up its ass to stop any of it.

Because westerners are obsessed with good vs. Evil for absolutely no reason.

Nothing has changed. The world is the same as its ever been. Maybe you have discovered a new definition of what you consider evil. What do you mean by evil? I doubt the ones you consider evil would consider themselves as such. There exists no good and no evil. There are only events that transpire and actions that take place. The world has no preference for such human concepts.