Digital Despair

Description

Rezgar Akrawi:

"Digital despair is a new and sophisticated tool of class domination, where algorithms and artificial intelligence are methodically and imperceptibly used over time to spread content that fosters feelings of helplessness and resignation. This is especially true for users with leftist and progressive orientations. These mechanisms amplify the failures and weaknesses of socialist experiments and leftist organizations, while portraying capitalism as an eternal, invincible system—entrenching the idea that change is impossible. Individualism is reinforced, and individual solutions such as consumption and self-improvement are promoted, isolating people from collective political action. In addition, leftist internal debates are redirected toward marginal conflicts and amplified, scattering efforts and weakening capacity for confrontation. Major corporations rely on analyzing digital behavior to target users and groups with content that induces frustration and discourages any hope for socialist change. These strategies are not accidental—they are a deliberate, scientific tool aimed at aborting or weakening the spirit of change and ensuring the continuity of the capitalist system without real or effective challenge."

(https://savageminds.substack.com/p/soft-surveillance-and-control )