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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
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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I don't want literal descendants, as I've said many times before, but I don't want spiritual ones either I want whatever comes next, if it be based on human DNA or metal machines or some bizarre crystalline biochemistry from a distant star system, to have NOTHING TO DO WITH ME
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I want the world to move on from... all this Burn it to ashes, bury it, let it be forgotten and lost No libraries, no archives, no museums A fresh start
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(I've very seriously thought about making a will that says to delete all my data after I die, don't talk about me and don't name anyone after me The narrative of my life ends when I do)
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