To a liberal, it is far more important to be “morally virtuous” and “pure” than it is to actually improve the world. So if China is deemed to have “impure” reasons for renewables, then it doesn’t count, and if the US “tries” to implement renewables, but fails, that’s ok, because they tried really hard.
Capitalist ideology in general, Žižek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief – in the sense of inner subjective attitude – at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange.
I think they do the flip side of this too, where (AES country) tries to provide (good thing) but failed or was only partially successful then they suck and are bad and killed 100 million.
Then you have good strong (Capitalist country) doesn’t give a fuck about providing (good thing) and so when they fail to provide it that’s okay. It’s your fault for not getting it for yourself!
There are so many aspects of China that are awesome. There are also quite a few things that I don’t agree with or like. How hard is it to understand you can agree AND disagree at the same time?
The anti-china propaganda and other similar bullshit doesn’t help either. Hard for someone without that understanding to get over the hurdle of “bad thing” to support any good things.
I’m high AF and had a lot of trouble writing this. To summarize, if you believe China did a good then you can praise that. Even if you also believe they did a bad.
but they’re not even applying this moral standard consistently, considering how these libs are all pro-capital and already think that financial incentive should govern all of industry
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To a liberal, it is far more important to be “morally virtuous” and “pure” than it is to actually improve the world. So if China is deemed to have “impure” reasons for renewables, then it doesn’t count, and if the US “tries” to implement renewables, but fails, that’s ok, because they tried really hard.
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It’s so stupid
Capitalist Realism chapter 2
I think they do the flip side of this too, where (AES country) tries to provide (good thing) but failed or was only partially successful then they suck and are bad and killed 100 million.
Then you have good strong (Capitalist country) doesn’t give a fuck about providing (good thing) and so when they fail to provide it that’s okay. It’s your fault for not getting it for yourself!
For example:
Nuance is for losers.
There are so many aspects of China that are awesome. There are also quite a few things that I don’t agree with or like. How hard is it to understand you can agree AND disagree at the same time?
The anti-china propaganda and other similar bullshit doesn’t help either. Hard for someone without that understanding to get over the hurdle of “bad thing” to support any good things.
I’m high AF and had a lot of trouble writing this. To summarize, if you believe China did a good then you can praise that. Even if you also believe they did a bad.
but they’re not even applying this moral standard consistently, considering how these libs are all pro-capital and already think that financial incentive should govern all of industry
Can’t find the relevant article unfortunately, so here’s a somewhat relevant one. https://redsails.org/brainwashing/
I assume you aren’t looking for Masses, Elites, and Rebels. Maybe “China Has Billionaires”?
It’s not “their team” doing it. That’s it.