Shit sucks and is bad for the brain
I think maybe that’s why some of the coolest leftists I know got there before social media and they’ve had a decade or more to chill out. That initial burst of clarity when everything seems to snap into focus the first time you read Marx or Kropotkin is really powerful and can break your brain. I know this game comes up a lot, but Disco Elysium is so good at this. Once you start making your character a leftist, he can’t help himself and brings it up in every conversation. He comes across as naive and weird, shouting about firing squads and crimes against humanity. That’s not cool.
You’re right, just talk to people like normal people. They respond better to that. Definitely don’t talk down to people or act smug because you’ve read stuff they haven’t. Try to meet people where they are if they’re curious and wanna talk about things. Not everyone’s perfect
0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself sad. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov fucked him over personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
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