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Quote of the day (from @pluralistic )

"We’re in the polycrisis, a widening gyre of climate emergency, inequality, infrastructure neglect, rising authoritarianism and zoonotic plagues.
But that’s not the bad part."

So what is the bad part?

THE BAD PART IS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ARE ALL TELLING YOU THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.

Jun 25, 2023 at 11:48amWeb
Show threadApplemaskJun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic Rugged individualism
Show threadLes capsules du prof LutzJun 25, 2023

@tcnicholls @pluralistic that's not the bad part either.

The bad part is the ruling elite is PLANNING those crisis.

#ClimatePurge

Show threadottoJun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic That strikes me as an apt summary of /what/ the world situation is today. For an interesting discussion of /how/ it got this way and always gets this way, I recommend this interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSsKV5F4xc
Misalignment, AI & Moloch | Daniel Schmachtenberger and Liv Boeree

YouTube
Show threadAwesome Unicorn 3Jun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic or they are telling us to do things that make very little difference (recycling) because they let corporations make the laws, so they pollute and then tell us it is our fault (In the U.S. at least)
Show threadFlorrieJun 25, 2023
@AU3Engine @tcnicholls @pluralistic this is definitely part of it. So much plastic and we don't even have the infrastructure to recycle it. It's altering ecosystems and is showing up everywhere, but yeah, it's up to us to do something about it.
Show threadSteffen ChristensenJun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic Don't forget asset value crisis due to two decades of near-zero rates to reboot the struggling economy in the West.
Show threadpost-punkedJun 25, 2023

@tcnicholls @pluralistic

I see an inverted pyramid of critical issues with an inability to address them due to partisanship & overconfidence in limited knowledge.

The people who are in a position of power are more powerful than those claiming powerlessness & self-reliance. They're intentional organized crime, a deeper explanantion getting my accounts locked/suspended both here & on Twitter, but there's enough common knowledge for accurate inference.

Show threadgavinisdie Jun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic I've probably said this too many times, but the oligarchs of the world for some reason want a mixture of Cyberpunk 2077, Nineteen Eighty Four, Fallout, A Handmaid's Tale, and WALL-E
Show threadideaPDishJun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic
Someone gaming the game theorists?
Show threadaethervisionJun 25, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic William Gibson called it The Jackpot. Gibson is good at naming things.
Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Jun 26, 2023
@tcnicholls @pluralistic what @GreatDismal named as The Jackpot.
My addition is “The Fugue” which we are well into and I don’t mean the nice Bach type Fugue.
Conditions emulating Schizophrenia are about to become “The Norm”