That thread is making my head spin, I honestly can’t tell if the new American civil war is going to be Rhodesian, South African, Irish, or Spanish in nature
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i don’t prescribe to some theory of history that suggests a schedule, but believing that the present will just continue is foolish, eternal stability of today is trick produced by the limits of our vision
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changing conditions and violent collapse aren't anywhere near the same thing, it's just the easiest form to imagine
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yeah im on board with that, i don’t think they are in any way mutually exclusive either
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certainly not, what i'm saying is that there is a bias in favor of collapse, because the more ordinary forms of change strain the imagination and are interestingly more uncomfortable than thinking about getting to eat your boss
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i think we can talk about collapse independently of specific geopolitical events that we recognize as such, we generally privilege our geopolitical models to the deficit of other ones
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not what i was getting at: imagining a violent death is easier, and to some more comforting, than imagining growing old among gradually shifting iterations of *this*, collapse cult an attempt at mental homeostasis
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no i know what you are saying, and i know that’s what morphine is attaq, i am just finding a possible related point of agreement
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