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This is uncomfortably dark, at a time when unrelenting misery is a way of life
Go read The Grapes of Wrath and The Concrete Jungle. Get back to me on today's unrelenting misery.
One kind of misery does not negate the existence of other kinds of misery. The pain of living through the Great Depression is different from the pain of seeing reality eroded away into propaganda for the highest bidders, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't be fighting to end misery.
Reality has always been propaganda designed to serve the highest bidders. It's just more obvious now because they're changing the propaganda more often.
Jotting that down
Nothing can be bad because it used to be worse
Well I can do all things through Christ, so why don't you jot that down too
Then do it. Go fix it with your magic powers.
You can do all things through christ.
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Don't let modernity ruin your daily life with doubt and uncertainty. Let Jesus^tm give you hope that will fuel your mindless toil while you work until the day you die.
Unappreciated sunny reference?
I hope so
America is prone to many different flavours of misery.
My favorite is butter pecan.
Sorry, we were talking about misery, not absolute bliss.
There are more human slaves alive on Earth today than at any previous point in history.
I doubt it. The Roman Empire alone at its height had a population of 50-90 million with roughly a quarter of that enslaved.
Even with extremely inclusive definitions of slavery (which are also not included in the classical count) the modern estimates of the total number of slaves is like 40-50 million. It's too many, obviously, but classical period Europe, Africa, and Asia alone would crush those numbers, and the 'New World" didn't appear out of nowhere when Columbus stumbled into it.
There are more people alive today then any other point in human history. Do you have slaves per capita?
Just read the plot of grapes of wrath, uhhh, you do understand that the story is about late stage capitalism right? And the person you were responding to is saying how we live in similar times right?
Its like someone saying poison can kill you and you respond with: see this story about how bad lots of poison is… yeah… that’s the point.
I remember a scene in Grapes where they realized their ground beef had sawdust in it, and then decided to eat it anyway.
Have you read it?