 will either rise as a collective or perish as individuals notes from the edge of the narrative matrix Everyone who's freaking out about wokeness and identity politics can relax Liberals are a hundred percent certain to get bored with that shtick and forget all about it without having helped a single member of any minority or marginalized group Ask the immigrants and the kids in cages Anyone to the left of Ted Cruz is a communist Anyone who opposes US imperialism loves and supports the governments at targets Anyone who defends Palestinians hates Jews Move the Overton window far enough toward your side of the debate and you can spin even the slightest hint of disagreement with you as dangerous extremism People who spend their time freaking out about communism are hilarious Even if you believe communism is always necessarily evil if you live in the Western Empire You're so far from experiencing communism. It makes more sense to spend your time fretting about shark attacks or being struck by lightning If you're reading this odds are you live in an English-speaking nation If you live in an English-speaking nation your government is so very very very far from espousing Communism that it would make more sense for you to spend your time worrying about being eaten by lions Even if you believe everything the TV tells you about communism The simple economic realities of your nation and the mountains of violent force keeping it in place Mean that of all the many many existential threats you can worry about Communism should rank near dead last Reverse Batman a working-class ninja spends his nights beating up kleptocratic billionaires whose thievery has created the socioeconomic injustice that's destroying his city Balanced commentary in the West does not mean criticizing all governments Balanced commentary in the West would be correcting the wild imbalance in our current media environment by focusing on criticizing the most powerful and deadly Governments who barely receive any criticism The powerful are able to manipulate humanity collectively to such an extent that our compliance now has us staring down the barrel of extinction on multiple fronts No individual can stop them They won't be stopped until the people begin thinking and organizing collectively to Which is of course why all collectivist movement is stomped out with whatever degree of violence is necessary Our rulers are not even the slightest bit worried about us as individuals But they are absolutely terrified of the idea of having to face us as a collective If individualism ever had an argument to begin with it certainly hasn't got one anymore Humanity's collective behavior is now so powerful that it can literally end our world The only thing we can control now is whether that behavior is toward health or destruction Oh, you just want the government to leave you alone and let you go about your business as an individual, do you? Well, guess what blossom Even if you went off grid and lived a truly independent life The ways the powerful are organizing the collective will still get you killed Even if you support a radically individualist status quo like voluntarism or monarchism You're never going to get a chance at creating the status quo without mass scale collective organization against the current status quo An anarchist who dismisses mass collective organization is just a larper The need to begin thinking and organizing collectively has shown up at your doorstep The luxury of thinking of yourself as an individual is no longer yours Unhealthy mass scale human behavior will destroy us all if we cannot make the changes necessary to turn it toward health We will either rise as a collective or perish as individuals All other options have been taken off the table Humans are not rational animals That's clearly evident in our behavior at mass scale and as individuals We are driven by our conditioning If any kind of free will can be said to exist at all It's only to the extent that we choose to bring consciousness to that condition The only obstacle to the creation of paradise on earth is the limits of human perception Our inability to see what's happening behind the veils of government secrecy behind the distortions of propaganda Behind the illusory nature of the ego We just need to find a way to see Seeing is all that's required If enough people could clearly see what's going on in their world In their government and in themselves The shift into healthy and harmonious functioning would immediately change From seemingly impossible to self-evidently inevitable