Oh I am staunchly anti-capitalist. I have hardly hidden that fact. My motivations are more pragmatic than ideological though as anyone with half a brain can see that the capitalist system is destroying the planet rather quickly. Capitalism will disappear soon enough, either by collapsing in on itself along with everything else or in a more managed way into something more sustainable. My bet is the former.
I find the infantile hairshirt mud hut jibes are a tell though, as if those who are fighting to save what is left are in some way primitive troglodytes trying to roll back progress when in fact the opposite is the case. Capitalism is destroying the systems we rely on. Those who have accepted that our path is unsustainable are also some of the best prepared. I can assure you that the mud hut I live in has systems that are state of the art.
The politics of envy is how the right imagines the left thinks, because their stunted emotional intelligence means they cannot fathom that people are not all self-centred and greedy like they are. It is a right-wing trope regurgitated time and again as notions of fairness and equality are foreign concepts. The left is not motivated by envy, but empathy.
I certainly find you interesting as you don't hide who you are, and your views are consistent, even though I largely disagree with them. I will debate anyone willing to make an argument on its merits, and do my best not to make things personal. I won't engage with anyone who does. And for anyone triggered by my posts on these topics, it is probably best you put me on ignore for your own mental health. I won't be stopping. I am a zealot for the living world after all.
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