Simplicity with intent. We've experienced the best civilization has to offer, yet remain unimpressed.
The Edge of the Wild
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OFFICIAL: Our "not deemed safe for the woke snowflake libs by the coastal elite freeze peach gestapo" views have been censored for years.
We can now report inside information reveals Elon Musk is in fact our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Also, a robot. An Immortal Robot God!
"Many imagine that humans in the past all died young and that, thanks to medical science, people are now living longer and longer. Soon, perhaps, we’ll all... achieve immortality.
It’s a nice idea; it’s just entirely fictional."
huffpost.com/entry/medicatio…
The mythology of technology has been making false promises for thousands of years.
Where are my flying waste-restaurant-fry-oil biodiesel vegan taco trucks?
technologyreview.com/the-dow…
Dark days when Facebook's venture capital backers start to sound like us.
The sanitized version of the fascist seeds at the core of Facebook, Google, and the hearts of their founders...
nymag.com/intelligencer/2019…
When your feed simultaneously contains multiple articles about mass die-off of insects and articles explaining that capitalists plan to make edible insects the foundation of the human diet in the future.
"The view that we should not worry about any of these things and follow technology to wherever it will go is insane," said @daronacemogIu, an economist at MIT.
nytimes.com/2019/02/04/busin…
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"[Previously], I didn’t think this was a very complicated subject; The #Luddites were wrong and the believers in technology & technological progress were right,” Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury secretary and presidential economic adviser… “I’m not so completely certain now.”
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Among many puns and digressions, say "I told you so" vis a vis humans becoming the sex organs of the machine world.
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"At the heart of Debord’s critique is his belief that capitalism is an inherently uncreative system. The obsession with profit demonstrably works against human interest, especially when it comes to the protection of the environment."
hyperallergic.com/313435/an-…
Decivilized retweeted
Brilliant critique of Doctrine of Progress (c.f. Pinker's Enlightenment Now) from Lewis Mumford, 1936. @nntaleb
Technology causes fascism causes technology causes fascism causes technology...
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Any YouTubers out there with creaky dulcet tones want to English dub this #JacquesEllul interview so people can fall asleep to it and drill the genius into subconsciousness?
Asking for a friend.
youtu.be/BOCtu-rXfPk
"I am a champion for both #wilderness and the cultures that closely in concert with it… climate change is a huge problem for indigenous cultures of the Arctic. So I am an advocate for Native solutions to climate change" – @kiliiiyuyan
#TEK > #Tech
missionmag.org/eco-warrior-k…
Seems tech cheerleaders are only friends with straw men librarianshipwreck.wordpress…
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Maybe too pro-tech/anti-primitivist, but a fine essay:
"…moving towards post-civilization — with or without industrial collapse — is a matter of looking around oneself, one’s community, and one’s landbase, and determining what is appropriate.
theanarchistlibrary.org/libr…
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"Fascism sets out an ethos, not a set of policies; appeals to emotion, not fact. It begins as a pose, often a deceptive one. It likes propaganda, dislikes truth, and invests heavily in performance. Untroubled by its own incoherence..."
aeon.co/essays/the-macho-vio…
A shout out in the L.A Review of Books? Stay tuned for our run of the talkshow gauntlet.
"I applaud online groups like “Decivilized,” whose feed regularly brings to attention the struggles of various indigenous and semi-autonomous societies."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/…