Hype for the Future 68/284: Symptoms of a Failing Society

Preamble

Unfortunately, even in the year 2026, society is stuck in the capitalist loop and the daily grind directly caused by both commodification and the capitalism crisis. Normativity is compulsory by many early definitions of “safety,” encouraging the false assumption of the “middle class.” Heteronormativity in particular is a dangerous feature of modern society, as the notion creates compulsory heterosexuality.

Introduction

Unfortunately, the current measures of “productivity” are unethical and highly extractive and exploitative. Since so many people hate work and related aspects, extreme individualism can easily be identified as the crisis within this wasteful economic system. Commodification and privatization have strictly hurt the community values that humanity continues to depend on, along with the associated moral panics.

Possibilities

The most likely explanation for the situation currently in effect is the coercion forced by capitalist society into creating workers rather than thinkers. The system advertises “freedom,” but effectively gives the population wage slavery, where the supposed “rewards” of work for survival continuously remain exploitative with minimum pay specifically to extract the value upward.

In the anti-work communities such as in the Berkshires, the idea of community value as being intrinsically separate from mainstream value is an explicit organization that enables an increased footprint of artists and musicians throughout the area. Art and music are not “optional,” though society has forced a normative job pipeline that discourages such expression, one of the only possible solutions to freedom of identity and expression.

Ultimately, if life remains for sale, then coercion will naturally remain a result—and an unethical one, in that matter. Therefore, life shall not be identified as “for sale” under radical reforms, many of which do not need to be labeled “socialist” nor any other term at all.

Hype for the Future 15D: Anticapitalist and Degrowth Proofs

While capitalism may not be morally equivalent to human slavery and slave labor, numerous fundamental similarities exist. Even though society has supposedly advanced beyond legally enforced racism, sexism, and even ableism, capitalism continues to promote all three of the discriminatory practices. novaTopFlex believes that capitalism is fundamentally a crisis and essentially the equivalent of human slavery and slave labor, even without the moral connotations. Unfortunately, modern day, late-stage capitalism in particular often resembles issues of human trafficking, which is largely detested by modern society as an international issue.

Hype for the Future 14A: The Mother of America

The origin story of the Commonwealth of Virginia would begin with the identity of Jamestown, though nearly would be the eventual settlement of Williamsburg. Although not the furthest east of the Commonwealth—or even of the Tidewater region—the Jamestown settlement would largely determine Virginian lifestyles, including plantations and associated cultural traits, beginning with the land, followed shortly by slavery. While no mainstream population in the Commonwealth of Virginia—or any other Southern state—should support slavery, numerous impacts from the history of slavery continue to linger to this day.

Hype for the Future 12A: Historyland

Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, even in spite of guilty historical ideas such as slavery and plantation culture, the region continues to maintain a presence and status as the origin story of the United States of America. Numerous plantations, particularly within the Northern Neck and along the north side of the James River, are largely identified by numerous historical figures such as the Washington, Custis, Lee, Tayloe, Madison, and Monroe families. Further inland is the Jefferson family plantation culture, for where Monticello becomes the pinnacle of Jeffersonian society.