What do you call this phenomenon? I think of the kulaks burning their harvest and I think of schools shutting down during desegregation in the US rather than integrate. Are there any other good examples? Why do people do this?
Most likely it’s petulance. “Don’t tell me what to do, and if you force me I’ll ruin it for everyone” is the attitude here. Most people emotionally never develop past the toddler stage, and you can convince toddler to share a treat but if you force them, they might throw it on the ground or spit in it.
Literally why the world is ending due to climate change.
The wealthy know we’re heading off a cliff, but they’d rather keep the system and frantically build bunkers and buy up farmland than change course. Doing so would mean giving up the system protecting their wealth.
They’d rather let the world burn.
The rich know they’re vastly outnumbered,
And endeavor to keep us encumbered
With onerous debts,
While their blue piggy pets
Help the bastards defend what they’ve plundered.
I came across it probably in the early r/CTH days. The 2nd line is the only one I rewrote to flow better.
they perceive the loss of class privilege as equivalent to annihilation
They do this because their souls have been corrupted by capital to the point of no longer having a humanity. Inundated with gifts from the bourgeoisie, they develop a false class conciseness and think they’re one of them. The truth is they’re placed there to form a buffer between the workers and the owners - to divide us and keep us fighting against each other. Colonialism was rife with this manipulation and it’s best summarized in the adage ‘divide and conquer’. In modern parlance, they’re a pick me for the ruling class, and like any pick me, they get cut loose as soon as they have worn out their purpose.
They deserve pitty for being such fools first, followed swiftly by what the kulaks got.
