/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

The title is clickbait, but I dare you to heed these words:

Why people are reading less and less? Why so few take on demanding hobbies, such as learning an instrument, gardening, painting or bird watching? Why people becoming so stupid, lazy and dull?
Because we've externalized the richness that used to be within us. In the neoliberal model of economics, we bound over brands, we express ourselves through products and we identify with personified corporations.
Revolution is not a possibility because the light that burned within us is out, we've becomed hollowed, less than human.
There's only one way to revive this humanity that commodities have usurped from us and become strong again: we need to reject all that is flashy, captivating, colourful, attractive, unique. We must embrace the opposite. Not what is repulsive, like the fash do, but that which is so unremarkable as to become invisible. We must embrace and learn to love the boring, the mundane, the unmarketable: the unrecuperable.
I am reminded of those dystopian movies, like 1984, where we know the future is terrible because everybody looks the same. Individuality is crushed, they say. If your individuality is something so flimsy that can be reduced to your hair cut and clothes, I say fuck your individuality, and fuck you while we're at it. We must understand that even if we all looked the exact same, had the exact same job and the exact same voice, our inner lives could still be rich if we're willing to put the work.
Willing to study, to read, to pratice, to discuss, to observe, to listen, and all the other shit we don't do because we'd rather play triple A games and watch Disney movies.
So dare to wear plain clothes, get rid of your tv, shave your beard, appreciate the local flora breaking through concrete, talk to the people on your neighborhood, read the newspaper, refuse the instant gratification and soon enough you'll discover that no algorithim can tailor the perfect living experience for you.
Art is not to be consumed, but to be made and forgotten, like sand castles. Clothes aren't supposed to be cool, they're supposed to protect you. You house doesn't need to be awesome, it needs to shelter your. Fuck podcasts, I want deep conversations with people I know. Fuck music albums, I want to play guitar and sing with my friends in a sunday afternoon.
And once we shed the illusion that consumption of any kind can bring happiness, once we embrace the boring that is a part of human life, once we take our minds back, we can take the world back.