Leo, do most Americans have a cognitive dissonance regarding late-stage capitalism?

[Hardkill]

People in the US hate or are hurting late-stage capitalism in many ways even if they don't realize it:

On 10/6/2020 at 2:50 AM, Leo Gura said:

Trump exploited peoples' fears and ignorance. Plain and simple. The peoples' true discontent is with the late-stage capitalism system, but they don't understand that, so they are easily exploited by right-wing demagogues.

 

On 4/12/2022 at 2:24 PM, Leo Gura said:

Part of the problem is that growing income inequality in American society -- thanks to unchecked late-stage capitalism -- has created a lot of resentment and dissatisfaction among average blue collar folk. Trump then hijacked and fomented this resentment as a con-artist is bound to do.

Reagan actually played a big part in laying the seeds for this with his rampant capitalism and deregulation. But those seeds would not fully sprout until decades later.

The irony of conservative policy is that once their policies prove to be a failure, they don't admit wrongdoing or correct their ways, they blame liberals and use this as an excuse to double-down.

 

Yet, they love or are addicted to late-stage capitalism in many ways even if they do realize it: 

On 11/27/2024 at 0:38 PM, Leo Gura said:

This is fundamentally wrong. That assumes that people are developed enough to transcend neoliberalism. They are not.

People complain about neoliberalism but they are not mature, developed, educated, or selfless enough to live in a non-neoliberal society.

20 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

To transcend neoliberalism requires exceptional development -- basically Tier 2 -- which less than 1% of the planet has.

We can't transcend it just by screaming and flailing our arms. We need to raise the rest of the world first. Neoliberalism has a long way to go before it exhausts itself. It's like a booster rocket that is still only half way through its burn, but leftists are screaming to dump it.

 

Is that the paradox that's going on with people's entrenched beliefs on hyper-capitalism?

Just want to make sure I am clear on what you're saying.

Edited Monday at 01:35 AM by Hardkill

[Leo Gura]

People are too selfish and immature to understand how the system really works at a causal level. All they know is they want money, success, sex, cars, houses, power, and their ideology validated.

They don't see nor care about any contradictions.

Edited Monday at 01:40 AM by Leo Gura

[Hardkill]

22 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

People are too selfish and immature to understand how the system really works at a causal level. All they know is they want money, success, sex, cars, houses, power, and their ideology validated.

They don't see nor care about any contradictions.

Yeah, a lot of people in the US don't even know what the hell neoliberalism or late-capitalism is or means.

Yet, there a lot of people who do know what those concepts are, but they still seem to not be able to stop doing those same things that are in line with unchecked capitalism because they are too addicted to it, yeah?

It's sometimes like "Yeah, I know it's really bad for me and it will probably be the death of me one of these days and I know it's not fair that many people in our country are still struggling through no fault of their own, but it's like a drug that I can't stop taking because of how good the high from it feels!"

Edited yesterday at 12:31 AM by Hardkill

[Leo Gura]

It's mass delusion and mania, like Nazism back in the day, but now it's crypto scams and profit by any means possible.

Yes, people are drunk on capitalism, like drunks having an orgy on the Titanic. It's a drunken capitalist circle jerk.

Edited Monday at 01:57 AM by Leo Gura

[Hardkill]

10 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's mass delusion and mania, like Nazism back in the day, but now it's crypto scams and profit by any means possible.

But the rise of Nazism happened not just because of some evil charismatic madman convinced enough to follow his regime. Hitler was able to make it happen primarily from enough people suffering from both the Great Depression and from surrounding countries they perceived to be great threats to their society.

The economy we are in is the strongest it has been since the 1990s. Greed is truly one hell of a drug.

I am sure that the brainwashing from both the right-wing media machine and many alt-media outlets on the internet including those damn crypto scams and online "get rich quick schemes" have made this whole problem even worse.

Edited Monday at 02:07 AM by Hardkill

[Staples]

We have brains and social systems designed to operate in tribes of hundreds and thousands, not billions.

Of course we are having social issues.

Giving humans globalized capitalism is like giving a chimp a machine gun.

The only way out is working through the tough problems now.

[Jayson G]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

It's mass delusion and mania, like Nazism back in the day, but now it's crypto scams and profit by any means possible.

Yes, people are drunk on capitalism, like drunks having an orgy on the Titanic. It's a drunken capitalist circle jerk.

@Leo Gura how do trump and elon get away with so much of this? I think Trump just launched some crypto coin (conveniently during inauguration) ?? This has to be illegal? (If I have this info right)