Isn’t there a big data center or something there? I remember driving through that area in 2020 and seeing a crazy looking sprawling complex that wasn’t expressly a military installation, but had far too much security and menacing architecture to be civilian.
Because social media is an insidious tool of the bourgeoisie which serves to create a feedback loop which confirms its users perceived intellectual and moral superiority?
What is that thing on the far right?
In another timeline, perhaps.
10k plus words to say, “people are alienated, society is crumbling, and the world has more mental health concerns than anyone realizes”.
No, even turbo-optimist Gene Roddenberry couldn’t imagine a future where the world’s trajectory in 1966 led to humanity adopting a collectivist perspective. There was a horrible war fought against genetically enhanced superhumans and then a full scale nuclear exchange between the east and west that resulted in 1/3 of the planet being wiped out before humans abandoned capitalism.
The Chicago Black Panther Party was doing intersectionality with feminists, a group of Puerto Rican activists called the Young Lords and poor whites known as the the Young Patriots in the 60s.
There’s a decent documentary on it called The First Rainbow Coalition that was produced by the Zinn Project.