#NateHagens on agency & staying human. Explains the despair I often feel.
"I increasingly think that many of us now live in a kind of soft feudalism. We have comfort & convenience & entertainment & abundance of choice in the narrow consumer sense. At the same time there are walls and gates around us built out of institutions & incentives, ownership patterns, & the hard physics of a globally interconnected carbon smorgasbord, energy intensive way of life.”
27min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao2MJeiPiL4