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Are people planning to keep working without socialized medicine, without sick days or unions and just upgrade to electric cars?

Do most Americans picture the future as pretty much like now, but with electric powered cars and trucks?
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soberSimplicity · 18-21, T
There is a tendency, especially in Americans, to imagine as though we are somehow at the end of history. Its more of an unconscious conception than a conscious one, but generally we imagine it as though its just the continual evolution and re-creation of technology from this point on. No change in understanding, no change in system, no change in mannerism, because as far as the modern American is concerned, this is the end of history, we have reached the final outcome. Its no wonder the modern world feels like a place of stagnation.
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soberSimplicity · 18-21, T
@swirlie First of all, I don't really understand how this is challenging what I said. Second, Capitalism has put the world in a world of seeming stagnation, by installing the perception of an Ontology of Stagnation. I don't claim this is how the world is as it is in of itself, but that this is how modern American culture has shaped it. The rest of the world is still somewhat held back by this same American capitalist machine, even if this is slowly but surely changing. There are certainly some nation states which have a higher standard of living than America, but I don't know any that are too significant, the Scandinavian Social Democracies have a higher standard of living, but they still survive through a certain amount of imperialism and exploitation of smaller third world countries for labor. China has seem some major advancements, but its a capitalist superpower that flies the banner of "socialism" despite not being anything of the sort.

And it becomes more ironic when one considers the looming ecological climate damages, which would definitely be stagnating.

If you wanted to understand more of what I mean, perhaps read about Hauntology or the like.
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soberSimplicity · 18-21, T
@swirlie I feel as though you're mistaking my pointing out of the hegemony that America has held over the world through the last century or so through proxy-war, corporate imperialism, and cultural subjugation as me saying that I think this should be the case.
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soberSimplicity · 18-21, T
@swirlie Okay now you're just not even trying to have a discussion, you would rather just sit in your narrow-minded landscape I suppose.