People incorrectly claim the degrowther movement has no political influence. In reality, though, degrowthers are everywhere. Most people in fact now are degrowth. We’ve collectively given up any vision of progress, of improvement, of collective organization to achieve societal benefits. It’s not the left or the right alone. Both sides are about making life worse in their own dipshitty ways.
If your energy use over time doesn’t look like China’s, you’re fucking up (and the US’s is about as depressing as the EU’s.):
Degrowthers are making everything worse. We should be building so much and burning up so much energy that the sun’s like, “Damn.” But no chance of that anytime soon as clowns are in charge of the circus.
this is the number one story on Twitter right now and there are still people doing the โif you ever want to enforce the law on transit YOUโRE A FASCISTโ routine. no one is going to take the bus if theyโre afraid of getting stabbed on it pic.twitter.com/7w5nUWuRDy
And the libs wonder why they don’t win. And that’s because they say shit like, “Batshit crazy vagrants should be able to kill and molest a few white women on mass transit for equity and justice! If you don’t want that, you’re a fucking fash!”
Absolutely we are. It’s nearly inevitable at this point. It’ll be the first Trump depression. There may be a second one if Ivanka takes power after, which is what I suspect will occur.
I expect depression conditions to last 7-10 years.
Wow. He’s just built different. I am way more muscular than that and I can’t put up 275 pounds.
I don’t really flat bench anymore as it’s hard on the wrists, but when I stopped I could do 200 pounds. I’m bigger and stronger overall now, so I think if I trained for a few weeks I could do 225. In the Army I did 250 a few times.
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We do seem to have just given up. Solar is far superior, though the desert isn’t lifeless. I agree that the priority should be solar, though, and put it in places that have the least long-term impact on humans.
Nope. That’s the elementary school reading of Nietzsche.
Now to what ol’ Friedrich was actually getting at. He was saying that all knowledge and progress is from a perspective, and furthermore was observing that with the loss of binding religion that had pervaded all culture, we’d need to create new horizons and values, of many different kinds, all instantiated by and for humans rather than handed down from some higher power or metaphysical authority.
In other words, we must become the god we killed; Nietzsche was not saying all hope of a shared future or futures was lost, but that now we were wholly in charge of creating any of that.
As I’ve said before, the philosopher Baby Queen understands Nietzsche better than most people who read him, including Nils Gilman.