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I'm sure that everyone's covered the major areas for dunks but the framing of this is so entirely idealistic and downright lib.
The idea that this "life support" system exists as some platonic ideal rather than being a aggregate effect of mass-scale 24/7 tampering from all angles - shareholders, governments and supranational organisations, corporations, policy makers, the filthy rich etc. is just baffling.
Honestly it comes off as very Petersonian in that I feel as though it's ressentiment being filtered through terminally-lib brainrot; you know how Peterson is constantly exhorting his audience not to seize power and that if they think they'd be oh so much more enlightened as a leader or a head of state well think again, Bucko!! We are all evil and corrupt and selfish so if you did happen to seize power your worst insticts would immediately be amplified by the power you wield and it would inevitably lead to your and/or society's ruin so sit down, shut up, and keep to your station in life?
This post has the exact same arch-conservative energy.
"Don't you dare try to intervene in the economy! If you presume to then you are arrogant and power-hungry and your attempts to make positive change are surely doomed because this mystical economic system is far too complex for your tiny primate brain."
It's a siren song to anyone who has any inclination towards making change in society.
Fascists believe in astrology because they are so domesticated that they believe the movements of the planets has more impact than actual humans
Jordan Peterson should write Prestige TV slop for Netflix. He'd fit right in.
Honestly, I would love for my worst instincts to be amplified by the power I wield. As a treat.