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Hoping to hell that’s an AI or a bot because this might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
Before you get depressed, know that there are people who actually are calling this shit out and there are people who are suggesting actual helpful techniques in that sub. But damn, that particular post was wow.
Anyway, I’m not going back to the reddit mines for a while.
Self-alienation is the main cause of the toxic positivity I think. One stays away from oneself and one’s material conditions, then hope everything fixes itself.
We must promote self-love, self-respect, self-reliance, and self-devotion to defeat the alienation and keep doomerism and toxic positivism away. That way, people will become more willing to change the world.
The annoying part is that the right wing would also agree with this conclusion. They have basically turned all of that into the self-improvement bootstrap grindset industry.
Engels would refer to this as the false consciousness.
What you end up with is individuals who have it almost figured out, but something is missing, there’s a certain kind of lack of self-awareness, that we aren’t alone in this world and things are constantly in flux.
The antidote for false consciousness is class consciousness.
Basically imagine if instead of competing, the self-improvement club supported each other, while retaining their members individuality. These kind of spaces is what’s critically lacking in our societies.