Anyway, not-so-friendly reminder that nihilism/doomerism/accelerationism is a conspiracy theory meant to keep people complacent and docile in the event of an authoritarian regime, and the online Left really needs to start shunning these groups with the same vehemence that we shun radfem/terf groups.
The biggest threat to systemic evil is hope, and this nonsense “the world will never get better, so why bother trying to make it better” ideology literally exists to serve those systems. The doomerism movement is pro-capitalist, pro-fascist, pro-authoritarianism, etc. because they accept these systems as inherent to the nature of humanity, unable to be changed… which is exactly what the fascists running the system want. After all, why resist the rise of evil if evil is always inevitable? Why fight to make the world a better place if the world is just going to end soon anyway? Why not just stand aside and let the authoritarians do their thing? It doesn’t even matter anyway, right?
The point is, the Left is far too tolerant of doomerism, and it’s driving me insane.
Reading Light of the Jedi for the first time has made the fact that the first (non-preschooler) TV show set in the High Republic time period is going to be a Sith-centric anti-Jedi mess even more disappointing than it already was.
I hate Star Wars because Han Solo's fake ex-wife's great great great grandma('s relative?) was in the messiest relationship with the leader of the most fearsome group of pirates in the galaxy arguably but that's not the point because this great grandma('s relative?)'s daughter was studying crystals as a kid before she went missing and stole the kyber crystal of this blonde jedi padawan she was good friends with whose master was a 17 year old jedi knight whose former master became in charge of this space station the pirate leader from earlier destroyed later the aftermath of which led to Yoda returning from his sabbatical with this 150+ something years old (human) jedi-ish who's been through the horrors of the force being eaten from him and had terrifying visions and kinda turned to the dark side while his wookie jedi friend watched in horror and later the wookie jedi settled on this planet with these super cute bird guys that were aided by the wookie jedi's former padawan and her padawan at some point before the pirates took down the space station and around this time there was this jedi that arrived on the bird guys' planet who had a cool ass hat and knew this pirate queen who lived far beyond all those people i mentioned and had this castle where eventually Luke Skywalker's first lightsaber ended up but none of that was a part George Lucas' original vision:(