I look at it as a matter of both privilege and apathy. I get upset (not visibly, of course) when people say they don’t “like” politics, or blow it off entirely. Politics is not some separate entity, we are living in a society! An inherently political game!
Furthermore, there is no “politics” as just a concept. What part of politics? Literally everything is politics. Climate change and environmental care? Food and agriculture? Economics? Culture, beauty, art? How can someone blow off literally everything? To me its an attempt to shut down conversation and demonstrates they don’t care or have no idea about the atrocities that have occurred/are going to due to the West’s collapse and climate change. Am I out of touch? Being non-undedstanding?
Let me know, thanks
No you are not wrong. As cfgaussian said if you can then explain how their material conditions link to politics etc then great do that but let’s not kid ourselves that a majority of the imperial core do not want to hear this. They want to sit in their perfect little made up world and pretend their complacency and laziness is justified in a world where their own countries dismember innocents for oil.
I’ve literally today gotten into a heated argument with others over exactly what you are describing.
Morality and empathy don’t end because “you are tired”. Fuck me thousands die at the hands of the UK and US etc, you don’t get to just decide when that’s relevant anymore.
It’s lazy privileged scum behaviour.
I’ve literally had people ostracise me for demanding better of their lazy chauvinistic selves. I’ve had angloids tantrum because I sent them an the article another on here posted of the objective proof that topgun 2 is abject propaganda.
These are people who like to wax poetic about being progressive and empathic and they hate violence and war and “boo hoo why can’t we call get along” but give them ANY uncomfortable truth or reality about their privileged fairy day dream of a life and they break down into exactly the petty white tantrum you’d expect.
It’s beyond a joke. It’s pathetic. Laziness is no excuse for callousness.
If you can’t be arsed learning and listening then shut the fuck up. If you want to defend US propaganda or nazis or “devil’s advocate” the bombing of children one day and cry “I don’t wanna talk about politics, I’m tired” the next then politely throw yourself of a bridge. That’s one less imperialist nazi apologist the world has to suffer.
Erghhghg I fucking hate these people. Don’t ever feel bad for anger. It’s shows you can finally percieve reality.