by system failure
It seems that the time has come, and actually, the
process is already taking place. People start to abandon a culture
that has dominated the West, especially during the last decades,
based on extreme individualism.
The reason? Simply because the fake prosperity it had
promised, dramatically collapses, revealing its true nature and
mission: serve the wealthiest 1% against the majority of the people.
The corresponding propaganda in favor of this culture collapses too,
simply because millions of people, even in the West, experience
directly the worsening of their living standards, due to this
culture.
As clinical psychologist, Bruce E. Levine concluded
recently:
Ayn
Rand removed Americans’ guilt for being selfish and uncaring about
anyone except themselves. Not only did Rand make it “moral” for
the wealthy not to pay their fair share of taxes, she “liberated”
millions of other Americans from caring about the suffering of
others, even the suffering of their own children. The good news is
that I’ve seen ex-Rand fans grasp the damage that Rand’s
philosophy has done to their lives and to then exorcize it from their
psyche. Can the United States as a nation do the same thing?
Of course it's not only a matter of the United States.
The Randian "philosophy" has dominated the entire West in
previous decades, affecting the minds of entire generations.
Corporate media propaganda reinforced this culture of extreme
individualism, for obvious reasons.
The Millennials represent a generation that has been
completely raised with this culture. This has one big advantage and
one big disadvantage.
The big advantage, is that when the central system of
values in societies becomes inefficient for the vast majority, people
feel the need to replace it, discover another system that will
liberate them from this cultural totalitarianism, in order to survive
and build a better future. The big disadvantage, is that having born
and raised inside this totalitarianism, they have not even the
slightest idea of how and what will replace it.
This situation explains greatly why the leftist leaders
in the motherlands of neoliberalism start to attract the youth.
Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK gather around
them massive audiences of young people, who actually start to
discover things that were not considered a utopia, but a natural
obligation by the state, two or three decades ago: free healthcare,
free education, social state, etc.
And probably this is a natural process. When a previous
culture has penetrated in every aspect of everyday life to such an
extent, even in the way we think and act, you can't build a brand new
alternative in no time. You start by searching the previous lost
values and fight for them. And if you win, then you can move forward
to improve them and make them work better and better in the real
life, for all the people.
The good news is that the establishment which supports
this dying culture of Randianism has run out of tricks, as it seems.
The bad news is that its socio-economic expression, neoliberalism,
becomes more and more authoritarian in its effort to survive. We
already see it: fast-track austerity and destruction of the social
state, fast-track privatizations, sado-monetarism, monstrous growth
of the banking and corporate power, reinforcement of the police state
and repression, brutal neo-colonization in various forms.
Time is running out. We have to get rid of the evil and
obsolete Randianism, return to the priceless humanitarian values. The
sooner, the better. We may save the planet and ourselves, after all
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Jesus Christ will (save) the planet, not man made rules and regulations. That's why humanity went astray in the first place - they left their first love. The KING will set things in order when HE comes, in the mean time the body of believers needs to stay out of worldly things and stay separate from the filth the elites spew out through laws and fake concern for the planet and it's people...
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