Rachel has moved...! on Nostr: It seemed he was talking about the country's wealth. Isn't it funny how we have to ...

It seemed he was talking about the country's wealth. Isn't it funny how we have to learn the state of the world according to authorities but its logic is completely irrational?

The state is supposedly the sum of its people, but the people constituting the state are poor while the state itself can be said to be somehow rich, perhaps only in relation to other states, which are also construed to have wealth separate from the wealth or poverty of their citizens, despite that they are too only relevant insofar as they represent those citizens... I mean, it is just the most blatant gaslighting I've ever seen and on such a massive scale... with really no oversight, no greater authority of the whole to witness and correct its obvious error...

Of course many people see the error, and from within our separate "national borders" we protest the mistake, and beg for justice, but we accept for some reason that we are too small to be heard by those who speak for us, whose authority is supposedly based on their function as advocates for the common good. We are convinced that we must not be part of a majority yet, since surely the sovereigns would do what was in the majority's best interest, if not the whole's...

In psych, some researchers study a construct called "Just World Beliefs" -- and these beliefs that things are how they ought to be correlate positively with statements used in measures of constructs like right wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. It is comforting to imagine that everything is in its right place, because it implies that justice is a given, as opposed to something won, which could then be lost.

If you are depressed due to the economic injustice in which you live, and depression, let's say, overwhelms you so much that you become unproductive in wage labor agreements, and so become unemployed, and try filing for disability in the US, for example, you enter into a bureaucratic obstacle course of the most dizzying, self-deprecating, and demoralizing rigmarole you've ever imagined, to try to win some bizarre debate with strangers about whether you understand your own abilities or not.

There is no social security whatsoever in this country--and conservatives are fed so much noxious rhetoric about slackers and excessive spending on welfare programs that they just assume it is even possible to receive disability income if you are disabled, which few actually disabled conservatives are even able to overcome the stigma of disability to request...

It is so maddening... the dishonesty and hypocrisy and deterioration of social cohesion and trust because of the influence of so-called "free" market capitalists... I just... it is... exhausting. The fact that the average American thinks "communism" MEANS authoritarianism is the problem. Lies permeate our entire culture.