[HN Gopher] Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What I...
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Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us
Author : mitchbob
Score : 5 points
Date : 2024-09-13 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
| mitchbob wrote:
| https://archive.ph/2024.09.09-150809/https://www.newyorker.c...
| ItCouldBeWorse wrote:
| Im so done with artists and moral apostle speeches. They
| contribute nothing to the conversation. They work on a
| hypothetical humanity - that never was real. That adheres to laws
| and strifes for unity in economic crisis times. Well bad news, it
| falls apart into war-mongering little tribes going fascist in
| crisis times. The capitalist bonanza did not bring forth a new
| mankind and to think it could contract without strife after some
| stern speeches is a insult to anyone with a brain. Meanwhile -
| others have worked day and night, to bring about this ability for
| self-control and stability in economic crisis and they get zero-
| acclaim- even criticism by the deluded. We got a pan-opticon now,
| with everyone looking at everything and shaming atrocious
| behavior even where government fails. We have endless
| entertaiment, that has reduced emissions of 8 billion people
| going full west and kept us sane even during those environment
| paradise time in covid lockdown. We have managed to accumulate a
| ton of old people, which will not riot and rebel en mass during
| the worst period of climate change. We are as prepared as we can
| get for the shit thats about to go down, as we can get, and its
| defnatly not due to artists and moral preachers standing on soap
| boxes, yelling at the crowd to feel good about themselves. I wish
| i had a stone, so i could throw it and connect some reality
| disenfranchised writer back to the ground truth.
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