What I found funnier is that these fictional people armed themselves. They violently opposed their oppressors. But many people are still brainwashed that peaceful protest, or single day protests, will end the oppressions.

You're supposed to make your actions unavoidable to ignore. The oppressors has to consider you a threat to even begin dialogue.

well, reality is simply more complicated than fiction.

in reality there is no clear good guys and bad guys. if you see it that way then you are absolutely oversimplifying something.

there can be victims and aggressors, but that doesn't make the victims "good guys". for example, i actually despise so much of what the Palestinian government represents, and yet, they are undeniably the victims. that does not make them good guys.

that concept is too much for most people to contend with. many people, especially conservatives, never grew out of needing everything to be cast in black and white. they can see someone kicked and abused and denigrated their whole life, and still only see them as "bad" for escaping that torment with drugs.

unfortunately there are many resistance movements i could join right now in america, but they're all the wrong kind. they are confederate wannabes that just want the chance to shoot gay and brown people.

if life were a simple as "join the resistance" being generally good advice i would need to be a screaming racist homophobe to do it. i think I'd honestly prefer being killed by the fascists.

I was watching one of the new star wars shows with my kids and the villain basically says he’s going to enslave the people of a world. And I thought, how is it that we recognize that as evil but once you put a wage into place we behave as though there is a meaningful choice?

The main reason is that while there are people who are willing to politically fight for the right thing, there are very few people who are willing to die for the right thing.

Luigi is one of those and even he has affluence.

We need 100+ Luigi's before we see the average person willing to risk their life.

Think about it this way: what would happen right now if Luigi were to die by the state? If he can't usher systematic change, what chance does my life have?

This isn't just online. While I'm not going to openly talk about what forms of resistance my local group has taken on, very few people are willing to do more than what we've been doing and it's frustrating.

Trump and the GOP are literally running the fascism playbook and we only have a few more chapters left until he has the ability to fully dismantle democracy.

I see it, its just that in reality a significant portion of "the resistance" has contributed to reinforcing and strengthening the tyranny it claims to be against, in a bid to force me into joining it due to the threat of devastating collapse of basic support systems.

The resistance in our reality is a villain, just a lesser one.

Most people in all of those stories just tried to live their lives. The story follows the few that didn't.

In real life, even if there is a resistance, the connection between those that could join/assist and the general populace, is blocked by a constant surveillance and enforcement state. When groups start to form, they're arrested because the act of organizing draws attention to them. Think of all the 'terrorist' groups you know. You know about them, because they organized. Which put a target on them. Which is also what ends most resistance groups.

Morpheus explains it to Neo in the movie

You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

How many worm lovers missed the point about Paul?

What you see here is more of a product of simple movie plots IMO.

At least in the States, they think they are “the resistance “.

Kinda terrifying, right?

Katniss is pretty much a god at every ranged weapon she uses, the resistance has space wizards, and Neo is fucking trans Jesus

These movies aren't exactly setting people up for doing anything other than heroic last stands where they die horribly because they aren't the protagonist.

Society is good guys vs bad guys, so true!

I think there are mainly two reasons for this:

1. In fiction, you’re simply not personally affected, so you don’t have to face any adversity or negative consequences. It costs nothing to see yourself as part of the revolutionary movement, and you don’t put yourself in danger.

2. Apparently, many people simply don’t want to admit what monsters their leaders really are, even though it’s actually obvious. This is the result of decades of propaganda, I think: The U.S., for example, has always seen itself as the friendly superpower that brings freedom and democracy to the world. Now that it is obvious even to the biggest idiot that this has always been a lie - since the regime has abandoned the facade - people are looking for other explanations to maintain the worldview they have long held to be true - such as the excuse that the current U.S. president is being controlled by evil forces from other countries (Russia/Israel) and therefore does not represent his own, indeed so righteous, country at all.

We see it, there just isn’t a “resistance” to join that plans to do anything remotely close to those movies.

Your conscious experience is all that you are. The only thing that truly belongs to you. Valuing it above all else only makes sense.

In Star Wars, the resistance was led by a princess. In The Matrix, the resistance was led by a demigod. I’m less familiar with The Hunger Games. But I think Katniss was just a regular person without any power. So at least with the other two, the rebellions had backing. Plus they actually did something so it was a valid side to take. Most people don’t want to put their safety and future on the line for an idea.

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