How privileged do you need to be to think it’s hardcore communists or nothing?
The sad thing is, while many of them are privileged twits, some aren’t. Some are legitimately oppressed, but have been sucked into a weird martyrdom culture of perfection or death, or been fascinated by the bizarre idea of accelerationism - that if things just get a little bit worse, they’ll magically get way better.
It is, unfortunately, a timeless human notion, as millenarian movements throughout history have shown. And as millenarian movements throughout history have shown, it is also a disastrous way of thinking that leads to immense suffering for no gain.
The sad thing is, while many of them are privileged twits, some aren’t. Some are legitimately oppressed, but have been sucked into a weird martyrdom culture of perfection or death, or been fascinated by the bizarre idea of accelerationism - that if things just get a little bit worse, they’ll magically get way better.
It is, unfortunately, a timeless human notion, as millenarian movements throughout history have shown. And as millenarian movements throughout history have shown, it is also a disastrous way of thinking that leads to immense suffering for no gain.