Quote from: AJMax on June 19, 2015, 02:28:52 AM

Quote from: Wilikon on June 19, 2015, 02:24:21 AM

Do you mean conservatards?

He quickly changed it lest the lack of spelling accuracy hurts his fragile sense of security

Seriously though.

Real talk: only two traits are necessary to oppose capitalism.

First and foremost one must possess compassion (for all), the greatest and noblest of all the wisdoms.

Second, a certain level of acuity is required. That is to say, one must see the world clearly and accurately, with judgement unclouded by myth, superstition, pseudoscience, or unchecked privilege (raw untempered ego). The most dangerous ignorance is the hubristic sort wherein one is certain one knows. Because they're admirable, it's easy to fool oneself into believing one possesses these two traits. Use this handy test to check yourself:
Any person with the aforementioned two qualities is compelled by their compassion to be oppose capitalism.

Furthermore, any articulate such person can muster a powerful and moving attack against capitalism simply by drawing our attention to everyday life, for the misery this system creates is all around us. In fact we are immersed in this misery like fish in water, such that it seems normal* and so becomes largely invisible to us. *it is the new normal that 60% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug.

The psycho/political situation is similar now to what it was generations ago when the abolitionists began the fight to end slavery. The main difference between then and now is that since then we've legitimized and industrialized the production, distribution, and consumption of mass quantities of drugs. Pharmaceuticals are naturally capitalism's favored misery-coping method because it's easy to make a fortune selling pills when you can leverage an entire field of science - psychology - to suit your business agenda. The insurance, pharma, and law industries have spent the past several decades perfecting the art of corrupting softer science* into utterly profit-driven pseudoscience. *Several degrees of separation from pure mathematics; In any case much too weak to defend itself from an attack vector so potent as corporate greed.

Yours in compassion and solidarity,

World Citizen Beliathon, proud social justice warrior