China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ - eviltoast

Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

  • daltotron@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Peace and love and hippies and Woodstock. Gen Z will be no different.

    This but with the emphasis on the people who got fucking killed or put in prison or aged out of the ability for revolutionary action, while the rest of them kind of, left those guys to rot in jail, and went on to just exist passively in the system, and purport the same hippie mentalities, and then get sorted, just the same as last time. Power corrupts and is magnetic to the easily corruptible.

    You know, I do wonder if, as the contradiction builds, and the farce kind of becomes more obvious, with like, the starbucks pride month rainbow logo while they also crush their unions, I wonder if everyone will make progress along that, as the marxists kind of tend to predict, with the whole “capital contains the seeds of it’s own destruction” spiel. I dunno. I think probably people don’t give a shit about contradiction though and are free to just keep living with a totally normalized cognitive dissonance.