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orwell

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3. The core problem...
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 01:48 PM
Nov 2024

...is massive concentrations of global wealth, unchecked Oligarchy worldwide, siloed propaganda systems run by the tech-bros, and the reality (inconvenient truth) of climate collapse. The last is the most important as it is a real constraint, a hard stop on our collective delusion.

This slow moving train wreck was put in place 50 years ago as the right wing corporate capital response to the threat of the 60's liberation movements. It is not an accident. It was a coup.

BTW I saw this talk months ago and was deeply moved.

I think where we have our heads in the sand is our inability to realize this was a very long time in coming and there is no fix.

We will lurch between extremes and collapse under our own hubris.

We have never been "exceptional". We have been extremely lucky. And that luck is coming to an end.

And maybe we all deserve it.

Nature bats last...

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