Against The Social Contract

Boomers are known for their out-of-date colloquialisms like the whole "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" which no longer seems to work in a society where not only the boss pays the lowest available wage, but is willing to replace you for someone who will work for less, so he (or she, in the case of useless HR firms that essentially function as busywork for post-menopausal women who would be better staying at home washing clothes and watching soap operas and stuffing their fat face with loads of ice cream). However, In theory, this works with us and against us at the same time. It works for us as it essentially helps some of us to maintain a modicum of hegemony in the world, it works against us because unlike other demographics we don't have the habit of disowning our own people as class traitors, the crabs in a bucket thing where blacks disown members of their own community for getting an education or during the Vietnam war where they burned their draft cards because they were essentially forced to fight for a system that ensured their oppression or if they were really “in-the-know”, upheld systems of imperialism and the capitalist system that kept them below the poverty line.

Speaking of education, in the past universities tended to be institutions of celibate men who gave their life to God, preached a vow of silence, and wrote books all day on astronomy, alchemy (what chemistry used to be known as), and geology. As long as it honored God and the natural world, it was allowed. Albeit, it wasn't until the idea of universal human rights that things began to unravel which is why you now have courses titled "critical African lesbian underwater basket weaving". Nothing against education per se, but the institution is rotted inside and out and has no space for objective reality, as real as its able to be independent of perspective. However, we all have perspectives. An entirely objective view of the sciences, both social and STEM, is unavailable to us. Almost everything we experience in this world is colored by, well, our experiences. I cannot fathom what its like for a poor black person in Compton, just as they do not know what its like to be a white man with autism.

But I've come to the conclusion, and this reflected in my videos about the tragedy of the commons and various articles I've written - such as something as simple as a shopping cart should be put back in its rightful place, because people assume that we are supposed to be men of honor and dignity, that essentially Indo-European men have no obligation to a society which treats us as amoral perverts prone to bouts of violence. That includes serving in wars where we go to fight only to come home and some other man knocked up our wife because something like adultery isn't considered an act of treason or even that godforsaken shopping cart needs put where it belongs. Of course, women were once considered property and property was considered one of the sacred institutions in the west, never to be violated. Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed that inequality started with the first appearance of fence posts, and while he's not wrong, on a historical level, why is it wrong in itself? But that social contract has expired, and we are not only seen as useless, but an obstacle to progress. So hence, we need to cut the tether from a society, crabs in a bucket and all and disown the people who see us as oppressors and let the natural world take its course and reap the benefits of acting contrary to it.

-J,/Adolf Stalin