I was watching this movie about the French Royalty before the revolution. It looked so absurd how the lower classes would even let these people rule them. Then it dawned on me that we are no better than them.
Somebody in the future watching a period movie about my time will also not understand how on earth me and other people like me let this absurd capitalist system rule us and do nothing to change it.
The trick with all these oppressive systems is to brianwash the masses to believe that there is absolutely no other way to live than this one. To believe that there is no Utopia and all Utopias are childish dreams. I know that our current system sucks also, but with all its shortcomings, to that of a French peasant of pre revolution days, IT IS UTOPIA, and it is here because some people then dared to dream of Utopias and started to believe in them.
The moment people start to think that" hey, stop mister, there might be better ways to organize our society and there might be fairer systems" the system starts to crumble and fall apart. That is the critical moment and all the beauty of deceit in a capitalist system, or any oppressive system, is that they succeed in delaying reaching that critical moment, when the masses START TO QUESTION, and start to dream about Utopias, and start to DEMAND MORE, believing that more is actually possible and available if they demand it.
But kudos to capitalism. At least for the time being, it is dominant and it seems nobody, even the leftists, can't even imagine a social structure that is free of capitalism. I know that this sad state of affairs won't last forever, as it did not last forever for the previous social structures, but believe me, the rate of change is so slow, you sometimes despair. I am just looking forward to the time that people start to demand more: more health care, more public housing, more equality, more social services.
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