What are your thoughts on the so called “blackpill”?
>>667620All this pill bullshit has become reactionary so we should take the metaphor back to its Matrix roots.
In The Matrix there was only the red pill and the blue pill. The red pill made you reject the Matrix while the blue pill made you accept the Matrix. The "pills" are not simply an ideological construct, they are an active choice, reject the system and become its enemy or accept the system and remain its slave. It was a binary choice. The only "third option" could have been Neo being killed (by either Morpheus/etc or an agent) for knowing too much.
In this original context the "black pill" is just another kind of blue pill. You are passively accepting the system. What justifications you have for doing so don't matter.
>>667971It's red pill,not blackpill, also, that whole incel/looks maxing shit is brain rot meme shit taken too seriously.
making light hearted memes out of it would be a relief
>>667622>In this original context the "black pill" is just another kind of blue pill. You are passively accepting the system<if we change the system, somehow undesirable men will be attractivekek
>>668022what is mentally ill about accepting reality?
>>668185its not up to me to change the world.
i am a product of the world, not its arbiter.
>>668256So the blackpill is fake?
Its simple really, when life is a curse and you will never reproduce because people like attractive people, and everything boils down to status or physical attractiveness, that you both lack, why stay in your conscious state?
Or mayhaps there are others things to life that the incels.wiki doesn't mention? Is brushing your teeth a bluepill? Is talking with your family members bluepilled? Why keep existing?
>>668270i do, in my own small ways
i lack ambition and will, however, which is the cause of much of my failure
>>668167>prophet Marx is not a "prophet". His theory emerged as he looked at history and noticed that capitalism didn't always exist. He furthermore noticed a pattern of historical ages changing under the pressure of contradictions. He applied what is known as dialectics in his examination of history and noted that just as the dialectic of his teacher's teacher, Hegel, noted, there is a tendency for contradictions to be resolved, but also, for new contradictions to emerge from the resolution. He noticed that this fit the history of mankind. After a lengthy (to say the least) analysis of the latest epoch, capitalism itself, he concluded that the conditions exist to not only resolve capitalism's contradictions, but end history altogether, a final resolution. He called this communism, and from the past patterns in history as well as the contradictions of capitalism, concluded that capitalism cannot be eternal, that the contradictions of capitalism will be resolved, thus not only is communism possible, it is inevitable.
Marx did not "prophesize", anymore than a scientist speaking of the sun's inevitable death, is "prophesizing".
>communism is about equality.Communism is about resolving the contradictions of capitalism.
>nature is unequal carnage.Nowhere is it written that communism will solve all social ills, that individual differences won't exist. But it will solve
most of them, because
most are tied to either capitalism itself or vestigial traditions of past epochs. I cannot guarantee that you would have a gf under communism, just as Marx could not guarantee what communism would look like exactly, but what I can tell you, just as Marx spoke of the antisocial effects of capitalism on Man, but also spoke of communism resolving these antisocial effects, so too can I perhaps suggest that your genes may have hope in communism, if only because the environment is different from capitalism, which is the only thing you've known in your life.
>>668278>Marx is not a "prophet". His theory emerged as he looked at history and noticed that capitalism didn't always exist🤣 and he was the first one, was he?
>there is a tendency for contradictions to be resolvedcontradictions actually dont exist in nature
>but end history altogetherso human society and development will cease to exist?
>capitalism's contradictionssuch as?
>Nowhere is it written that communism will solve all social illsthen it will still have "contradictions", no?
>>668280>and he was the first one, was he?I don't know about that. What I
do know, is that in Marx's time, and it continues to be the case today, the whole stratum of bourgeois intellectuals - economists, philosophers, etc. either mystified the origins of capitalism (for example, assigning the origin of capitalism to the ideas of the Enlightenment), or actively denied the political aspect of capitalism (for example, treating capitalism as what emerges "naturally" when there is no "political intervention" in the economy). Of course, this is nonsense. Ideas do not emerge in a vacuum, likewise to suggest that the economy isn't inherently political, that political actors, political groups, do not have interests
based in the economy, is ridiculous.
>contradictions actually dont exist in nature<In evolutionary biology, an evolutionary arms race is an ongoing struggle between competing sets of co-evolving genes, phenotypic and behavioral traits that develop escalating adaptations and counter-adaptations against each other, resembling the geopolitical concept of an arms race.Evolution is literally dialectical.
>so human society and development will cease to exist?Society as you presently know it will cease to exist.
>such as?Production is socialized yet the proceeds (surplus-value) is privatized, capitalists invest in land or machinery rather than the laborers which make that land and machinery useful, the tendency to produce more goods than what workers can actually buy with their given wages, automation and technological advancement increasingly coming into conflict with the relations driving capitalism (worker - boss), class antagonism between worker and boss…
>then it will still have "contradictions", no?Contradictions as a result of the way the economy works, no.
>>668299>I don't know about thatuse your common sense
>Evolution is literally dialectical.how? you just described complexity.
>Society as you presently know it will cease to exist.and this will "end" history, how?
>capitalists invest in land or machinery rather than the laborers which make that land and machinery usefulthey invest in all; land, machinery and labour.
>the tendency to produce more goods than what workers can actually buy with their given wagesmore goods = cheaper goods, so affordability is itself conditioned by waste.
>class antagonism between worker and bosswhich also exists in terms of mutual benefit. a worker gets a wage. a firm gets profit.
nothing is "contradictory" in all this. its just inequality via proportion, which distributes across an area (or even dimensions). a pyramid's apex differs from its base, but the two are not in "contradiction" to one another. this is an abuse of the term.
>Contradictions as a result of the way the economy works, no.in other words, the gubbermint will own my toothbrush
>>668312>use your common senseWhat "common sense"? I'm telling you I don't know who was the first person to say "capitalism didn't always exist". What I know is that in the year 2025 we still have (already discredited) demagogues claiming things such as "capitalism is human nature" and "capitalism always existed".
>how? you just described complexity.What I just described is a dialectical process.
>and this will "end" history, how?If history is (in large part) a struggle over resources, then there are two steps to ending it. One, generating a sufficient amount of wealth for all. Capitalism has already achieved this. Two, distributing said generated wealth among all. This is the historical role of communism.
>they invest in all; land, machinery and labour.The chronic understaffing of businesses proves the exact opposite.
>more goods = cheaper goods, so affordability is itself conditioned by waste.Yeah, you're pointing out a flaw of capitalism. Good thinking. This is the case because under capitalism workers do not receive an equal return on the work they put into producing a good. The paradox of producing iPhones you cannot afford.
>which also exists in terms of mutual benefit. a worker gets a wage. a firm gets profit.On the contrary, the "mutual benefit" is an ideological narrative of capitalists. The capitalist is an obsolete "middle-man" whose only contribution is the allocation of capital; the laborer meanwhile is essential to production. If an individual capitalist's role can be replaced by the state, what do you think that suggests? Can the state replace the laborer? Of course, today we have for example, autonomous corporations managed by a state-like bureaucracy, with the owners (so-called shareholders) contributing absolutely nothing beyond the initial capital injection, acting like a bank for the respective corporation, with the actual allocation of capital being done by the corporate management.
>in other words, the gubbermint will own my toothbrushhttps://youtu.be/rgiC8YfytDw >>668383>What I just described is a dialectical process.what is "dialectical" about the process, exactly?
>The chronic understaffing of businessesmachines are cheaper than people in the long term
>Yeah, you're pointing out a flaw of capitalismwaste is one of the central features of all natural systems; most particularly, life itself.
>If an individual capitalist's role can be replaced by the state, what do you think that suggests?that you seem to be advocating for state capitalism?
>owners (so-called shareholders) contributing absolutely nothing beyond the initial capital injectionthe capital injection is the lifeblood of the business
>>668390>machines are cheaper than people in the long termYou just say that there is a mutual benefit between workers and firms lmao, there is no "mutual interest" if the firms fire workers the moment they can substitute them with machines. The interest is antagonistic and conflicting in nature.
>waste is one of the central features of all natural systems; most particularly, life itself.Death is also a central feature of all natural life, should we boost up mortality rates too? Idg your point here other than debatebroing
>that you seem to be advocating for state capitalism?Yeah, state capitalism is a transition between capitalism and socialism
>the capital injection is the lifeblood of the businessI agree, which makes it more striking that capitalists aren't injecting into capital stock. The investment value of money means capitalists would prefer to hold their wealth in forms of raw cash instead of capital stock during times of market volatility, which is where we need capital injection the most
>>670338It's even more ironic that people confuse black pill with red pill.
More people ironically though show more sympathy to red pill though
>>670467It's funny how a lot of leftists throw the concept of a systemic issue away the second undesirable males are involved
Why is this?
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