MidnightPocket [comrade/them]

Criminal

market doesn’t have to equal capitalism. As we can see, Capitalism abandons the market when conditions are unfavorable. Capitalism simply fetishizes the market.

The article implies as much.

I mean EA types are similar to people who participate in MLM schemes in a sense; there are people who are participating because they are organizing it in their favor and then there are others participating in it because they are hapless rubes who got duped. This author strikes me as the latter category of participant. And that is why I say “well-meaning”, which is increasingly more often my polite way of saying naive fool.

Need a word for these “well-meaning” types who somehow ceaselessly yet unknowingly traffic in western chauvinism. They are always drawn to effective altruism and Sam Harris (pop psuedo intellectual propagandists, the “traditional intellectuals” of Gramsci), without fail, I swear.

When you talk to them at length you can eradicate any and all doubt that they are ideologically committed malicious actors that cynically prefer to masquerade as someone benevolent and intellectually curious.

At the end of the day, these types seem to genuinely lack any and all political instinct/intuition and hopelessly carry water for whatever appeal to authority that the private sector currently is broadcasting.

“useful idiots” is the closest thing I can think of but it would be nice to have something more distinct.

We love our aesthetics of democracy don’t we folks

I had the misfortune of eavesdropping on a conversation recently where some guy who was working in a bourgeoisie brewing facility recently switched jobs to work at a waste water treatment center and he was advocating for removing fluoride from water with a level of rationale that I have to assume he picked up from co-workers parroting information they heard on the Joe Rogan podcast.