Not a thing but it stays and one opens as a mouth will begin
An encounter last week in the university library I work in:
Me: The desire for violence against dissent, especially from Libs & Dems, a sign that at very minimum Libs & Dems unconsciously aware of their guilt and complicity in what is being protested
Fucking nuts, you and me. Semi-famous nepobaby chaired full professor tenured fac who's NPR's go-to shitlib then said, You're wasting your dissent, save it for the Trump dictatorship, or better yet, use that energy to get Biden reelected to spare us the Trump dictatorship, and what did I say? I thought of who I daydream of being and said nothing more to a reality that makes me who I'll always be. Made this blog post semi-famous nepobaby chaired full professor tenured fac who's NPR's go-to shitlib will never read even if he knew this shitty blog exists. Mine fetaphors abound. Hey, Six Organs of Admittance has a new album:
"I don’t think you can overstate how hugely popular big showy uses of force against college kids and professors and protestors are going to be with a big segment of voters. The more gratuitously violence, the more of a bump in the polls Republicans will get"
Should you discuss a war anywhere in the world while failing to demonstrate the right allegiances, the warsplainers will come for you
"Well he just said it out loud. The reason they don’t like tenure is because these billionaires want to be able to call your dean and get you canned for not being an obedient serf"
Democrats are the enemy, every single one of them, shithearts to the core, every single one of them
Motherfucking MCPS dropped the shitting Blue Cross/Blue Shield for the much much shittier and more evil Cigna, if I make it to 80 I'll be living in a refrigerator box hoping not to be shot for illegal homelessness
"To summarize: Our needs increase in step with technological progress but the technological progress cannot at all points in time satisfy the needs of everybody. Abundance defined as full satisfaction of all material needs cannot be achieved in technologically advancing societies"
1/today i became a subscriber at the planetary limits action network, and as such i have access to the listings of the 76 resources recommended by them - it turns out the "most popular" is the novel ishmael by daniel quinn
2/the network founders published a paper in the journal Energy Research and Social Science
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
full text is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621003327
3/in the supplementary data to that article they share their working assumptions, including
c.Despite a secular trend of increasing societal complexity since the Neolithic transition began 10,000 years ago, human history is marked by frequent collapse and reorganization of these societies. This suggests that societal complexity is difficult to sustain, for a variety of reasons including rigidity of systems, scale, and decreasing (and eventually negative) marginal return on investments in complexity. Our current global industrialized civilization is not immune to such factors. d. It is essential that humanity reframe its decision making processes to value ecosystem health, resilience, sustainability, human rights, and true quality of life above traditional economic indicators predicated on unsustainable material and energetic growth. e. However challenging, it is completely possible, and indeed desirable, to make deep cultural, paradigm shifting changes that could lead to a more resilient society with a higher quality of life. f. Issues of collapse and change are now global in scale and, as such, unprecedented in human history.
Cognitive dissonance is quite a drug
ReplyDelete1/today i became a subscriber at the planetary limits action network, and as such i have access to the listings of the 76 resources recommended by them - it turns out the "most popular" is the novel ishmael by daniel quinn
ReplyDelete2/the network founders published a paper in the journal Energy Research and Social Science
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
full text is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621003327
3/in the supplementary data to that article they share their working assumptions, including
c.Despite a secular trend of increasing societal complexity since the Neolithic transition began 10,000
years ago, human history is marked by frequent collapse and reorganization of these societies. This
suggests that societal complexity is difficult to sustain, for a variety of reasons including rigidity of systems, scale, and decreasing (and eventually negative) marginal return on investments in complexity. Our current global industrialized civilization is not immune to such factors.
d. It is essential that humanity reframe its decision making processes to value ecosystem health,
resilience, sustainability, human rights, and true quality of life above traditional economic indicators
predicated on unsustainable material and energetic growth.
e. However challenging, it is completely possible, and indeed desirable, to make deep cultural, paradigm shifting changes that could lead to a more resilient society with a higher quality of life.
f. Issues of collapse and change are now global in scale and, as such, unprecedented in human history.