Whenever I see reddit preppers talking about their preparation for when “shit hits the fan”, I can’t help but notice they seem to think they’ll survive on their little homestead either alone or with their nuclear family. They don’t seem too worried about the threat of civilization collapsing, they’re just excited that they’ll get the chance to larp as lords ruling over their lands.
But without any kind of community organization or serious wealth to hire a private militia, aren’t they just as fucked as the rest of us? Like, these people are going to be the very first targets of roving bands of raiders no matter how many tacticool, tricked out AR-15s they own, right?
The end goal of imperialism has seemingly always been a class with automated technological supremacy over the vast majority of the population, who are proletarianized and divided. It’s still up in the air whether all the moving pieces can be managed to get to that point before the wheels come off and we get some other kind of outcome though. The professionals automating that stuff for their paychecks need to be taken care of to get to that point, before the rug can be pulled. Maybe the ruling classes already have enough resources to make it happen regardless of the specifics.
Yeah, after reading The Jakarta Method, the concept of Fascism as the mechanisms of imperialism turned inward became very, very obvious. I guess what I’m largely trying to get at is that for all our talk of the horrors of what’s coming, we’re ignoring what’s here. Almost like we keep pointing towards the worse thing we can imagine so we don’t have to face the present. Revolutionary procrastination. :data-laughing:
