I keep hearing from people in my life that spirituality is an essential part of living a meaningful existence. I hear the phrase “let go and let God” and “everything happens for a reason” used a lot as advice and comfort. However, I’m an atheist and a materialist. I don’t know how I could even be spiritual with those beliefs. At the same time, my life is not fulfilling despite the fact that I am not struggling financially. Moreover, I feel paralyzed when I try to get off my privileged ass and do even the bare minimum for socialist organizing because I realize that it goes directly against my labor aristocratic class interests. I feel like knowing that sticking my neck out and contributing to the real movement to change the present state of things is the morally correct thing to do isn’t enough to drive me.
In short, what is spirituality? Is it compatible with materialism? If so, how? And if spirituality is the wrong tree to bark up, how can I drive myself to do what is to be done?
Lol yes.
They’ll still have a home with no mortgage,
Theyll have healthcare that wont bankrupt them
they’ll eat food either prepared by them or at a community kitchen. Food made by people not exploited would taste exquisite.
Food would be produced for the purpose of providing nutrition and not profit so it’ll be as good as "natural
All parts of town will be fine, walkable bikeable ,and most important with robust public transport.
Their job will be useful and thus fulfillg. Lol at it is now btw
Their boss will be, you know.
Their environment will be orders of magnitude better. Their kids won’t burn. Climate refugees won’t be shot.
Crime will be less due to people having their needs met.
Every facet of this nerds life will be better.
I think you need to detach your concepts of material development level from political development level.
Please elaborate
Places can be nice to live in because they are materially wealthy, even if politically they are backwards and shitty or even have laws targeting your identity specifically. And politically advanced places like Cuba can be poor and thus not as nice to live in comparatively.
Cuba looks nice af on Google maps. Their rural areas much nicer than the US’s. They also have higher literacy, lower infant mortality, same life expectancy, no homeless, lower crime, fewer prisoners and a nice island breeze. They do all this with none of the wealth the us has. Like what is your point exactly?
You are deluding yourself if you think that level of material wealth does not matter.
What do you mean nice to live in btw?
Probably treats