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Originally Posted by Funka Genocide
It's nice and good and great to try and think globally or whatever it is the academia are up to, but functionally speaking without a broad enough audience and a sturdy enough platform you're just pissing in the breeeze.
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So the best solution is just to embrace evil and be more evil than everyone else? Good plan.
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In order to attain that sort of audience, you pretty much need to be in politics, but then you'd lose the autonomy necessary to be idealistic.
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That and capitalist democracy is so inherentely rigged that anyone who wanted change couldn't actually get into power.
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Karl Marx had some great ideas, but look where that got us.
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Well they have been misused and perverted by people for their own gain- but not really his fault.
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So long as people cling to their cultural identities and associate themselves with nations, you will always have these sorts of outcomes. And while from an idealistic viewpoint it might be best to just abolish all boundaries and work together in some big hippy commune, how precisely to you hope to accomplish that?
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Step 1: Round up the rich people/assholes/dudes who look funny
Step 2: Murder them
Step 3: Sieze means of production
Step 4: Utopia!