The earth knows no borders (ok maybe the natural ones can be real), but we've placed them everywhere.
It involved a logic of power that rests on the violence of abstraction, and the controlling of space.
Places get devastated by power (e.g., the demands of the capitalist market for profits). And there is a logic of power that attempts to mask these problems, treating them as singular and isolated.
and i'm starting to get tired of hearing the same old stories being told about how the market will fix things, like green consumerism or any kind of consumerism, that rests on the continued pillaging of places and exploitation of labour for profits.
Privilege is real and trying to 'vote our consciousness with our dollars' is many times just a grift. Though I guess I can appreciate that people have the mindset of wanting to do something, anything.
aredsquirrel