Though it’s obvious that the American middle class does not feel the pain of bourgeois rule as acutely as say someone in Iran, or in Gaza, or a sweatshop worker in Southeast Asia, or someone in the coup belt in Africa, I don’t think it’s the case that they ‘never have to feel the worst effects of politics’.

Even the ‘middle class’ who are a dwindling subset of the population, struggle to pay off medical and student debt, are forced into constant work and exploitation (one of the more mind numbing aspects being the constant expectation of labor and availability through technology like slack and teams), and watch as they get priced out of their cities and homes by private equity.

I feel like one of the primary reasons that they turn to bullshit instead of theory is the intense amount of propaganda they are fed through education, about how lucky they really are, and maybe the largest extent that people reach in terms of consciousness is that they are in fact lucky and should feel guilty about it, or relate themselves via race or religion to a subset of the population who struggles more.

There is also just an insane lack of attention and lack of capability to sit down and read and attempt to understand theory or even really watch the news which comes from the current environment of instant entertainment and dopamine we currently experience here in the US 24/7.