Isn't it weird that we think if you're upset about something the right response is to DO SOMETHING, GET OUT IN THE STREETS "I'm so mad about climate change I'm gonna go out there and -- " Aaaah hold up -- go out how
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
"I'm gonna get on a plane to -- No, I'm gonna get in my car and -- No, I'm gonna -- huh" (I'm gonna be honest, "Why are you flying to twenty cities around the world on a private jet to yell about global warming?" is a good point)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
You wanna save the world from global warming? STOP GOING PLACES STOP DOING THINGS Be someone who never leaves their home, has never traveled outside their hometown, never tries exotic foods and spices and eats an extremely bland diet, never buys interesting new products
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Isn't this falling into the "Clearly it is up to the individual to solve the climate crisis" and ignoring that major corporations and highly wealthy people are the main contributors?
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Well, Arthur isn't talking about consumer activism, he's talking about maladaptive human psychological drives And I mean billionaires and their capitalist minions are possessed of those drives as well
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Felgraf_Physics and
I mean what other instinct than FOMO could drive somebody to try to literally acquire all the money that exists in the world A pulsing insatiable hunger to prevent being locked out of content at all costs
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Jung talked about the twin drives of eros and thanatos, the life-urge and the death-urge, and people who write comic books try to make it so the life-urge is "good" and the death-urge is "evil" (you give Darkseid the Anti-Life Equation, or rip off Darkseid and call him Thanos)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
But I mean we know what the unrestricted life-urge looks like It looks like kudzu, like an algal bloom, like cane toads exploding through Australia It looks like a metastasizing cancer It looks like what the human race is doing to Earth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The shocking and horrifying idea of being "programmed to die" is... how our own bodies work When it stops working -- cells no longer undergo apoptosis -- that's what cancer is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I dunno if I actively identify as a "transhumanist" or "posthumanist" or whatever And sometimes I'm sympathetic to hopes for human extinction, which you'd think would be the opposite of that But both are desires for THIS -- the status quo of human existence -- to pass away
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It's really that desire that's so repulsive That nothing should come after us, nothing comes next Just more and more and more of this shit, FOREVER The old school sci-fi "mankind conquering the stars", where people just like us move onto every other planet for 10 million years
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
People going around doing their stupid people shit, FOREVER, EVERYWHERE Everything that might be different, everything that might be better even as it might be worse, wiped out of possibility forever because our particular species and culture decided it had to win
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It viscerally turns my stomach to think about No, no, no Something else, please
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