Things move slowly.

The agricultural revolution meant more health problems, more social inequity; more hardship and less time to rest after a hard days work. It made life worse for those experiencing it.
That doesn’t mean it was bad.

It was a cornerstone on a foundation. It let us go forward, even if it lead us backward.
The same is true for the industrial revolution.

This shift away from capitalism though isn’t technological but social, riarchal, the human shift that comes after the setting shift.
We get to see what it was like for peasants nearing the end of feudalism.

We can have this idea that we’re just fighting the same battles over and over again. That life is cyclical and all progression is merely alteration of a set reality.
We forget that we live this life in the timescale of individual people; we need to step back in order to see the broader perspective.

People in the olden days saw the past and the future as the same thing, their lives of the exact same world that their parents were once born to.
It wasn’t
In ways it was,

Things move slowly.

It’s like river crossing.
You have to plant your feet as firm as you can in the waterbed. Keep each other steady. Ground yourself at each step.
You feel your legs as tree trunks against the current.
But you’re still moving somewhere.

Alternate title: The End of Capitalism will be as Traumatic as Giving Birth.