Violence as a tactic is certainly a major taboo, one that ironically is upheld by the dominant threat of violence of those in power. I'm afraid things will change only when their illusion of strength is exposed for what it is: a needle reigning in a bull.
> But, like, if you think ahead a little bit on geological scales it’s hard to see a way that life survives this unless we choose differently at a planetary scale than we do now.
too bad I can't see "the people" actually caring even about 25 years far future .....
> And like any gravity well, it’s MUCH more energy intense to escape than to fall in.
Ah, Space Analogy detected! ( I use it internally as ex-space nerd).
> while like 50 people own every fucking thing.
Irony is ... 50 humans IN THEORY can be much more coherent than say 5 billions. We just technomagical space unicorn to meet them all head on ;)
My favourite modern writer put around million words about that
But really, as introvert from Leningrad all this talk about solidarity .. does not feel solid? Like, for how long it must hold? How many ppl? How many expernal connections? How to select ppl who care about others in heavy presense of pretenders, who use some superstimuli to hook us not to power, but as power source?
Violence as a tactic is certainly a major taboo, one that ironically is upheld by the dominant threat of violence of those in power. I'm afraid things will change only when their illusion of strength is exposed for what it is: a needle reigning in a bull.
Thank you for noticing that I should write poetry. :) I have a book of poems I wrote that I can send you if you email me your mail address.
> But, like, if you think ahead a little bit on geological scales it’s hard to see a way that life survives this unless we choose differently at a planetary scale than we do now.
too bad I can't see "the people" actually caring even about 25 years far future .....
> And like any gravity well, it’s MUCH more energy intense to escape than to fall in.
Ah, Space Analogy detected! ( I use it internally as ex-space nerd).
> while like 50 people own every fucking thing.
Irony is ... 50 humans IN THEORY can be much more coherent than say 5 billions. We just technomagical space unicorn to meet them all head on ;)
My favourite modern writer put around million words about that
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/1291/Chatoyance
But really, as introvert from Leningrad all this talk about solidarity .. does not feel solid? Like, for how long it must hold? How many ppl? How many expernal connections? How to select ppl who care about others in heavy presense of pretenders, who use some superstimuli to hook us not to power, but as power source?