co-host & producer of @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
currently reading "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Robert Raymond
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human beings could not have survived on planet earth if it wasn't for our communal, cooperative practices. every single person knew on a cellular level that they relied on others (human and not) and they understood the debt and gratitude they owed
in less than 500 years we've undone this. the philosophy underpinning liberal capitalism destroyed that wisdom which is now mostly lost, buried in mass graves and reduced to whispers. we now live in the age of the self, a mass suicidal cult of the individual
if I was a member of the ruling class in the US I wouldn't be able to ask for a more desirable opposition than the western left. fragmented, at each other's throats, untethered from any coherent material analysis, fixated on utopian fantasy, divorced from internationalism
probably one of the most devastating developments in human history was the emphasis and romanticization of individuality brought by european liberalism of the 17th and 18th centuries. something deep and ancient was lost with that shift which underpins so much of our tragic present
