"To be sure, this total lack of scruples recalls the attitude of the Nietzschean Übermensch, for whom everything is permissible. [..] His desire is to oversee a permanent secession not of the plebs from the patriciate, as occurred in ancient Rome (as in the fable of Menenius Agrippa) but of the patriciate from the plebs."
Capital’s Militant
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/capitals-militant
#TechMoguls #SiliconValley #Thiel #Palantir #NewRight #TechBros #PayPalMafia
"The elites are fond of dangling a grass-coloured future in front of us – deodorized, disinfected and depolluted thanks to #biofuels and #ElectricCars. But to produce sufficient #biofuel we’d have to cover the earth with soy plantations, definitively deforesting the planet .. "
Jet-Setters
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/jet-setters
#SustainableTransport #GreenCapitalism #greenwashing #GreenTransition #Inequality #PrivateJets
"According to a 2017 study, total #InsectBiomass has dropped by 75% in the last 25 years. [...] There are many causes for this decline, but #ArtificialLighting is certainly one, because the majority of #insects are nocturnal. We don’t realize it, but illuminated #cities are a major migratory destination for insects from the countryside. Light also disturbs their reproductive rituals."
"Starless Sky"
Paria sans portefeuille
