I hope fatalism is the right word for it. I guess it could be called defeatism, acceptance, arguments from nature whatever.
Hoo boy I hope this doesn’t come across as unintelligible ranting but it’s a huge pet peeve of mine and I hardly ever see it addressed.
Nothing is more anti-life, anti-humanity and anti progress than accepting ‘the way things are’.
This might be a hot take and might even be considered by most to be an unhealthy opinion, but accepting things ‘you can’t change’ is defeatist to me, because how do you even know you can’t change something? You’re not god, you don’t know for sure. There are so many things we thought were an unchangable fact of life that did, in fact, get changed. Yes I understand that stressing about something that doesn’t have an immediate solution right now is not going to do your mental health any favors, but it doesn’t mean solutions aren’t worth pursuing. This type of nihilist fatalism isn’t just depressing, it’s dangerous. It’s the type of attitude that gets millions killed by desease because illness is just a part of life so why eliminate polio?
Like why even bother inventing shoes if foot pain is inevitable, right? Pathetic. Invent shoes, you dweeb. Nothing sadder than seeing this species resign itself to premature extinction.
I believe alienation from struggle leads to learned helplessness.
Fatalists believe there’s nothing that can be done because everyone doing anything lives outside the imperial core. So, “the way things are” is rapidly changing, but only in places where they don’t think to look due to chauvinism and imperialist propaganda.
Once you can identify with the struggle in Iran against Zionist aggression or identify with Chinese social progress, the fatalism fades.
Do you think a lot of people are going through a sort of grief, realizing that not only is the US empire falling, but that it was run by the worst kind of people?
I’m not who you asked but i certainly think so. I’ve seen a lot of relapses into liberalism lately. And just a bunch of other shit from people I know who are better then that. I think there are people who didnt do a full interal house cleaning (mentally speaking) and are having to deal with that now.
I think people are so alienated from the global anti-imperialist struggle that they’re going to be very slow to wake up to the fact that the empire is in decline. On the other hand, I think they’ve always known it was run by the worst kind of people, but “it is what it is” and their learned helplessness allowed them to cope with being ruled by monsters.