1. So I have some thoughts on Jonathan Franzen, climate change, The New Yorker, the Protestant and transcendentalist roots of American individualism, Fredric Jameson, E.B. White, and a few other things. Maybe Jack Kirby.
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12. I have some more thoughts here on where Jonathan Franzen is coming from and why he's wrong. https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-jonathan-franzen/ …
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Great thread, thank you! It's nice to have a framework in which to park this kind of self-centered perspective on collective crisis.
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You may or may not be right about Franzen’s cozy complacency, but can you please avoid incorrectly lumping Thoreau in? He spent his life fighting and writing against slavery and war. Not remotely similar to Franzen’s attitude as you describe it.
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It’s true that Franzen claims Thoreau as an inspiration. That doesn’t mean that Thoreau, author of “On The Duty of Civil Disobedience,” is defined by Franzen. Thoreau urged mass action against injustice.
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James Kunstler had a bit less cozy version of this in his World Made By Hand
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"The Aesthetics of Destruction: Contemporary US Cinema and TV Culture,” Mathias Nilgespic.twitter.com/U9V9tXV76e
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Honestly this is basically just the liberal version of accelerationism
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Damn straight. If we dont change course then in 200 years roughly half the planet, centered on the Equator, will reach temps ~200F during the summer. There's no adapting to that. And it wont be enough to "live somewhere else"; a deadzone that big will wreck ecosystems everywhere
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Not if the “saving” of the world by the collectivists and authoritarians makes our world that much more inhospitable. The climate catastrophists yearn for the pre-industrial aboriginal fantasy as they deny the idea of human progress, to spite the success of western cultures
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1820: The vast majority of the world lived in extreme poverty 200 years ago. Only a small elite segment enjoyed higher standards of living. Since then, economic growth has transformed our world, lifting more people out of poverty even while population numbers have multiplied 7X
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