I’m not sure most people understand how neoclassical economics is based on “arm chair general” style models largely divorced from reality.
And how horrible an ideology it really is to have had infiltrate every aspect of western life and culture.
The more I look at it, the more I see how a large part of our current societal issues can be laid at the feet of this ideology masked as science.
Alan Moore
Saga of the Swamp Thing and Watchmen are two amazing runs of comics he wrote.
Huge fan of his recent-ish novel, Jerusalem.
I’ve seen this and known the end was coming since I was a teenager 25 years ago.
Who care about consumer spending when I’ve been watching the current biosphere die off for my whole adult life?
I’m supposed to save for a future in a society that’s pretty obviously collapsing as the biosphere deteriorates?
I don’t have zero hope for the future but the idea that this current infinite expansion system can continue is obviously wrong.
It’s the same with a lot of us millennial people.
I graduated into a job market still largely crushed by the dotcom bubble bursting, had my entire life and career path destroyed by the GFC, then another destroyed by covid.
Let me just spend a third of my monthly food allowance on food I can make better myself to please the downtown economy god, I guess lmfao.
Sleep.
I want deep, restful sleep.
For 8-10 hours uninterrupted by anyone or anything.
https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/
Just gonna drop this here to try and spread some knowledge.
River Raid for the Atari 2600
There’s been a documented decline of about 70% in animal populations, the amount of weather and climate related destruction has demonstrably increased, there’s traces of plastic and forever chemicals almost literally all over, Australia was on fire for half a year, wildfires are increasing in frequency in the western US, hurricanes are coming with increasing frequency and intensity from the gulf up the Atlantic.
There’s also the fires that tore across Greece, the tornadoes forming in states in the US that have seemingly never had them before, the massive loss of ice from Arctic and Antarctic areas of the world.
This is just a small smattering of the things I remember from recently.
I’m not saying that next year everything is going to immediately collapse. But I can see the stability of the ecosphere dissolving in front of me and there are quite a few nations that seem like they are leaning towards collapse if history is any judge of things.
“Karashta, you don’t want kids? You’d make a great dad.”
I’ve been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I’ve seen crumbling around me since my teens.
People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I’d seen and read.
Somehow, “I told you so,” doesn’t, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.
Enshrouded and Old School Runescape
So much this. I can’t remember the last time I had a huge pile up of dishes that I didn’t clean while something was simmering or whatever. By the time my meal is ready, everything is clean or there’s one pot that might need to soak while I eat.
No mention made of sky high insanely record corporate profits. Lmfao.
“Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author’s simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.[2]”
It’s his “independence” and “self reliance” parts that make him a hypocrite
This doesn’t invalidate everything he says and does.
But it’s really easy to be “independent” when someone else foots the bill for the land you’re living on and you mom does your laundry for you.
Latin. I would have suggested it before you started learning two Romance languages.
The more they print money, the more people buy into that monetarist bullshit while the rich rob us by driving up prices and claiming “inflation”.
“Shortage of homes” created by a parasitic class of people and corporations who gobble up all the available homes
Pause.