He’s just going to get people killed. But that’s ok he doesn’t give a shit anyways, so it’s moot. What are a few thousand dead peasants when we could make big stock number go up?

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      Seriously. It’s like no one realizes the literal most important thing in all of the world.

      Line go up.

      Fuck your family, fuck your health, fuck your safety, fuck yo couch, fuck the environment, LINE GO UP!

      C.R.E.A.M.

      … Fml

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        In every civilization there comes a time where the interests of the elite grilled too far apart from the interests of the common people. Some kind of correction becomes inevitable. The way this correction plays out and who wins is another matter. But it looks like in the coming decades, maybe centuries, a new to type of economic model gets worked out, based on sustainability first, or very soon new tech is survived that allowed further line going up without destroying the planet. But living through a pivot in history is always a stressful affair.

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          Rick James from Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories?

          R.I.P. Charlie Murphy

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        I’m kind of relieved we’re extincting ourselves before we become an interstellar plague of misery, with children being born into inescapable, perpetual oxygen debt to the local corporate leadership on Mars and Titan colonies.

        We’d make the Ferengi look like altruists. We were a mistake of evolution.

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          It’s the current western dominionist mindset that’s the mistake. Don’t mistake that for all of humanity (even if it currently makes up 90% of it).

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            As opposed to…who exactly? That one tribe in the sentinel Islands that hasn’t been contacted by modern civilization yet?

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              Sure. Also many other cultures who have been contacted and haven’t been completely destroyed.

              But the point is not that we should copy some tiny tribe’s way of life, the point is that western dominionism is not the only way that humans are capable of organising their societies. There are likely many other ways that have never been tried yet that are much better than what we have now.

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                So… would you ignore all of recorded history, and most of anthropological records that dictate humanity has always been in a race to find new and exciting ways to kill each other?

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                  I don’t think that that’s the only reasonable intpretation you can draw from anthropology and archaeology.

                  If you want a good example of an alternative interpretation, I’d recommend reading Wengrow and Graeber’s boom The Dawn Of Everything.