I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

  • @ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml
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    51 year ago

    This feels too biologically reductionist to me. More like they perfected the social engineering necessary for their empire to operate

    • Call me a dumb lib, but I agree with Chomsky when he was debating the post-modernists.

      There are natural bounds to how you can manipulate human behavior; you can’t reshape the fundamental human psych more than you can the eye, you just have to work with what you’re given.

      Americans don’t act like humans. They don’t love their children; they’re an extension of the parent’s narcissistic ego. They don’t even crave comfort or food; they’d rather see other people actively suffer than improve their lives. I’ve NEVER heard of any other population so in love with death and sadistic violence. It’s I’m every part of their culture, and it seems distinct from the basic functionality of mirror neurons in, what I’d call, normal humans.

      • @ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml
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        21 year ago

        This is ridiculous and easily disproven by just seeing recent immigrants acting the same way. Human beings are 100% naturally capable of behaving the way Americans do, it’s the system we live in that systematically engineers this behavior that is the problem.

        • Tell you what, if I ever see America not act like a hive of subhuman serial killers I’ll concede the point, k?

          If the country can go two weeks straight without celebrating dead minorities over my lifetime, I won’t think your all natural poor baby eaters.

          It’s a very high bar for Americans, though. They love to bathe in corpses.

          • @ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml
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            51 year ago

            Look, I am not against wiping America off the face of the earth if necessary to preserve the rest of the world. It will take untold centuries of cultural revolution to undo the rot of settler society. But frankly, I don’t see how the idea that Americans act the way they do because of genetics and selective breeding is compatible with the Marxist worldview.

    • QueerCommie
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      21 year ago

      Gotta agree, it’s crazy how much social factors influence us that there doesn’t need to be any genetic differences to make much of the American population messed up.