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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Every time I read a complaint about having to do the dishes or working a dumb job, I like to imagine the complainer making their case to the kids who work 16 hour days to make their clothes.
I'd prefer we complained in ways that didn't make us sound like benighted children. When we do so, it makes it hard for anyone to take actual critiques seriously.
When I babysit my friends' toddler, I'm not surprised when she howls at the injustice of not being allowed ice cream for dinner. But I also expect her to grow out of it.
Yeah, things could be better. But the fact is that almost everyone on here is living more comfortably than most humans who have ever lived.
So, because things are better than before, we must accept the status quo? We can't want to improve further? Especially nothing that while we might be better off than the past, inequality is rising, governments are cracking down on freedoms and we don't feel were being given a fair shake at life when compared to those who own the land we all live on?
You've kind of just written the same basic misunderstanding repeatedly, so I'll just answer here.
The point, which you're missing, is that when we complain in ways that make us sound like benighted children, it makes it hard for anyone to take actual critiques seriously.
There are absolutely valid critiques, important and fucking essential critiques. **But ** claiming you live in a capitalist hellscape while you live a life of luxury unimaginaeable to most humans who have ever lived, well, that makes you, and by extension the Left, sound, at best, like an ignorant child.
Consider how dumb it sounds when Republicans claim that any climate action is an attack on American Freedoms etc. It sounds stupid and makes you discredit any sort of actual critique about some perhaps ineffective climate mitigation etc.
You also keep saying the same shit over and over again, including "benighted children" for some reason.
Nobody is comparing anybody to the past. The present is better than the past because of the hard work of humans to make it that way.
I'm not sure who you are or where you come from, but most of the west is indeed a capitalist hellscape. Yes, it's very different to being literally enslaved to mine lithium as a child in the Congo. However, being told you have it a lot better than Congolese slaves while you effectively have no real agency over your life, that you will largely spend grinding a meaningless job to afford to survive in a society that can comfortably feed and house and educate everyone, is a hellscape.
Whether you ever want to admit it or not, your entire argument is just that hellscape is too mean a word to describe indentured servitude, because slavery exists
Sorry, benighted means intellectually unenlightened. Think of it as a term meaning ignorant, with some other connotations but that'll suffice.
Yeah, that's just a silly take.
If there's no frame or context, then anywhere with anything that you dislike in any way is a hellscape, e.g., Taylor Swift's life is a hellscape because she can't go into a casual restaurant without being hassled.
If you live better than almost anyone who has ever lived, like Swift does, complaining about living in a hellscape is pretty silly.
What can I say? People are awful. It’s why I avoid them.
I agree, I think we're pretty awful.
But the hope is that memes and jokes like this make maybe one or two people put their sillier grievances into perspective.
Aww, I remember feeling hope, too.
So that's how silly I sound when I say that.
Regardless of how grumpy an old man I am, I should stop saying that.
You should. I’ve said it too much and now not even Billy Bragg and the Murphys singing “All You Fascists” can’t get me hype.