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<p>
Now days inclusiveness, diversity, lgbtq+... are all associated to
corporations, governments, and all those nasty power structures. How did
this happen?! Those things should be against the system, power, and
control. Why are powerful people and power structures using these things
for their own use? Why are the same people claiming to be against the power
rejecting certain subgroups of the working class? Shouldn't it be the
working class against the ruling?! To answer these questions here is a
<b>very rough</b> overview of progressive history.
</p>
<h2>Enlightenment</h2>
<p>
Quite a ways back in europe thinkers started to come together and ask
questions and search for answers. They looked back at philosophy from way
before their own time and started coming up with new ways of thinking
themselves. This was a world controlled by kings and churches and the new
ways of thinking brought their power into question. Instead of blind faith
people started to use logic and reason. Science, art, and technology took
off. Growing distaste for the old ways and conditions for a new way brought
about revolution in many places some notable ones being the french
revolution and the american revolution.
Its a common misunderstanding that the french revolution was the poor
against the rich. What really happened was there was a growing middle class
known as the bourgeoisie. They were once small in numbers and power but
were quickly becoming a economic and intellectual force ready to take on
the world. The growing dislike towards the kings and aristocrats, a new up
and coming class, and poor people in need of better conditions lead to the
bourgeoisie uprising. After generations of bourgeoisie in power they ended
up replacing the kings and aristocrats they destroyed. People who once
talked about logic and reason, freedom and liberty... are now the ones
aiming to keep working class people others dumb and compliant. Even though
democracy and liberty wise we are back on square one all this didnt happen
in vain. New technology and ideas have been brought into the world that can
bring about things far greater than what the enlightenment age thinkers
could ever imagine. Its just a manner and leveraging new conditions in the
favor of freedom and liberty.
</p>
<h2>Post enlightenment</h2>
<p>
The enlightenment thinkers nearly set the framework for history following
that time. A lot has happened since than. Some notable thinkers after them
are Darwin, Hegel, and Marx. Darwin changed the way we understand
species and biology. Hegel improved the way we understand the mind, the
world, and the way everything you observe interacts. Marx applied those
concepts among others to understand the problems of post enlightenment
society and created a framework for understand historical change. Since the
cycle of new ways, new rulers, and new ideas improving things only to take
hold and turn to shit been observed the question now is how do we break
free of that cycle? If society evolves and changes in the same manner that
biology does than the hope is society will one day evolve to fulfill
material needs, freedom, and liberty. How do we ensure this future?
</p>
<h2>The progressive movement</h2>
<p>
A growing dislike of the bourgeoisie, and these new ideas lead to a new
movement. Workers unionized and went on strike, laws against child labor
got made, company towns got taken down, food regulations got put in place
to stop food companies from poisoning everyone. One of the greatest (least
shitty) american presidents of all time, Theodore Roosevelt himself helped
the movement with his admirable amount of stubbornness. The game monopoly
was created by a anti-landlord activist and follower of Henry
George. Around the world the seeds for socialism, communism, and anarchy
were being planted.
</p>
<p>
"Thinking is the best way to travel" - The Moody Blues.
</p>
<h2>Authoritarianism</h2>
<p>
Many were feeling that people aren't smart enough for democracy. They felt
that <i>free-market</i> and worker controlled means of production are just
two sides of the same coin. They wanted to go back to the world of kings,
mono-cultures, and state churches. They saw the working class as a bunch of
dumb chaotic people who need someone bigger and smarter to think for
them. Many looked at darwnism and thought that maybe the same can be said
for rulers. That the strongest best leader takes control and its their duty
and right to rule. They also looked at the masses and thought about
selective breeding them to be more compliant like farm animals. The
enlightenment thinkers left a hole. Their ideas of free will and logic
didn't include everyone. Under their framework you can quite easily say not
everyone can think with free will and logic and those who don't should be
lead and controlled by those who do.
</p>
<h2>War</h2>
<p>
Around the around those authoritarian and progressive ideas didn't
always clash. Sometimes they merged. People were growing distrustful of new
ways because of economic and social issues but were still tired of the
old. New fears gave people with answers power and control. Fascism and
nazism started spreading. In russia the communist movements to played into
it. They decide instead of breaking the pattern of control to leverage the
pattern of control. Freedom and liberty were no longer seen as
important. The nazis and new age communists (they weren't much like the
originals) fucking hated each other for this. Each one demanded a level of
control that multiple empires can't all have. <b>The driving force behind
fighting nazis wasn't a moral one but a practical one</b>. After everything
was over the same people fighting nazis shared similar ideas. America used
the war to gain alliances with other nations and grow to a economic and
military power even though it didn't do much of the fighting. A lot of
americas felt like they fought the wrong enemy though admitting that is
dangerous after all the nazis committed so many unmoral actions. American
ideas, nazi ideas, and a wall of lies lead way to neoliberalism.
</p>
<h2>Neoliberalism</h2>
<p>
All the american solders who fought a war that wasn't theirs returned home
as the good guys but with the ideology of the bad guys. The most powerful
of both worlds. Why just beat the nazis when we can replace them is what
they ask. Nationalism, christianity, eugenics, racism, sexism,
ablism... were all given a place to grow. German scientists who created
nazi weapons were brought to america to finish were the nazis left off. The
new enemies were the communists. In russia they were also leveraging post
war conditions. The weapons became so advanced that now any powerful nation
can destroy the entire earth with a press of a button. In the past if a
nation had a super powerful weapon they would use it gladly. Now that a
weapon that can destroy the whole planet existed and all sides had them
war leaders had to reframe from using their most deadly weapon. This gave
birth to the cold war. Meanwhile in america there was a rising middle class
and countries being rebuilt under american investments would soon
follow. This middle class being made up of that ex-solders.
</p>
<h2>Counterculture</h2>
<p>
The middle class of ex-solders had a hell ton of children. These children
were born and grew up in the most calm time period in a long time yet the
pattern of control was more clear than ever to anyone watching from the
side lines. The world they grew up in was completely different than the one
past generations knew. New ideas and technology radicalized pulled the
entire world into a new age. As they grew up they slowly learned they lived
in a world built on lies but they couldn't quite put their finger on
it. Pointless war and pointless violence everywhere. Easier access to
psychedelics interacted with a growing awareness of the pattern of
control. Better education served as a double sided sword for the new
control. It needed smart people to operate the new complex technological
world yet education can lead to new enlightenment and breaking free of the
rulers of the world. The young started creating their own culture. One of
new music, new ways to get wasted... The old get drunk in bars while the
young got high at rock concerts. They concluded the issues with the world
to be a cultural one. The powers of the world spread a culture of control
and violence. Instead we need a culture of peace and love. The civil rights
movement, women's rights movements, gay rights movements all hit center
stage. Every action the leaders did to counteract the new movement only
verified what the hippies already knew.
</p>
<h2>The death of counterculture</h2>
<p>
The hole with counterculture is it saw things through a more cultural lens
and lacked more economic and historical ones that other progressive
movements had. It was a grass roots movement that as a whole lacked much of
the deep philosophy progressive thinkers been coming up with and improving
upon since the beginning of written history. Counterculture was simply glue
of peace and love holding together a bunch of hippies and
activists. Counterculture was still deeply capitalist since it was only a
cultural revolution that it pushed for. Wood stock was all profits and
business under the hood. All the counterculture artists spreading peace and
love were feeding back into the capitalist system. All the hippies were
plucked from the fields and put in the corporate offices. The system can't
defeat them so it joined them and profited off it. The businesses and
governments were painted colorful yet its still the same walls
underneath. Steve jobs was a hippie tripping on LSD on a farm before he
started apple. The military now <i>spreads democracy</i> instead of take
over countries. Yes, this is very america centered but everything an empire
does spreads. Counterculture crossed the sea back and forward many
times. With the hippies in control of the world its now seen as good to be
a little progressive but pushing for ideas progressive enough to actually
do anything is labeled extremest. A company only has to be moral enough to
not be boycotted. Slavery was out sourced far away. Out of sight out of
mind. Making the pattern of control less painful is encouraged but breaking
the pattern is fought against just as much.
</p>
<h2>The reactionaries</h2>
<p>
A system dominated by strong white men was being replaced. Women, black
people, gays... were making their way into the governments and
corporations. This was seen as a threat so many doubled down on the
post-war version of the status quo. They saw new capitalism as weak and
blamed all their issues on it. Nostalgia as we know it was born. "Things
were better before <i>insert anything here</i>". "If the hippies like peace
and love than lets spread hate and violence". The reactionaries never think
deeper than that. They only think about what is instead of what can
be. They concluded that if the present sucks than we should go back to the
past. They fail to envision a better future. That's the whole point behind
"make america great again". How they see it is the pattern of control was
in their favor but now its out of their favor. Removing the pattern of
control is out of the question.
</p>
<h2>To finish things up</h2>
<p>
Make sure to spend time going outside, learning new skills, reading cool
books, and listening to good music. Don't fall for the traps the system has
set. Things will not improve much until we break this pattern. I call for a
new type of revolution. This blog post was partly inspired by
<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=nST5BggdfUs" target="_blank">
this video
</a>. Do check it out (: Love you all stay safe and keep your eyes open :D
</p>
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