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This may sound a bit weird, but it's a random thought I've had, does anyone ever feel like memes like this almost make us leftists come off a bit too idealistic and romantic?
Lemme clarify where I'm coming from here. As I get older, I'm in mg 30s now, I've come to the realization a lot of people don't want the life of a bohemian artist who's traveling constantly and does six different types of creative hobby. A lot of people want a kinda boring stable life with a house, a job that's rewarding but not too physically or mentally taxing, enough time off to take a nice vacation once or twice a year, and the resources to keep them and their family comfortable. I guess I say this cuz this is increasingly how I feel as I get older. Add this to the fact that I don't think FALGSC is coming anytime soon, if Mecha Lenin pulled off the perfect revolution today we'd still probably have a few generation of people needing to pull 9-5s before we got to the point we could all be space traveling poets like in Star Trek so maybe don't oversell what we can deliver to people alive now? Focus on shit an actual socialist government could achieve in our lifetimes, like public housing, more vacation time, free healthcare?
No need to go all the way to beatnik wandering artist. I feel like the creative urge can strike any person at any time, and the problem with this is that as things are currently organized, that spark will be smothered. Part of demonstrating to people why they should want things to change is appealing to those who have felt that happen to them. I don't think a person ever forgets the pain of it, and it can happen to anyone.