i used to be an eco-fascist back in my pre-anarchist/nihilist days, so i was all about the precedence of the environment. still am, actually, but only if everyone agreed to work together in a concerted effort. until that day, i’m throwing empty mcdonalds cups out my window like i’ve always done in an effort to trash the world and force a devolution into anarcho-primitivism so we can start over.
but this greta thing. i don’t like it. it smells bad, like a disingenuous liberal stage-prop used to solicit sympathy from an audience who’s been duped into believing global warming is worse than it really is. oh its happening alright… but not nearly as bad and fast as they say. but i am totally on board with the whole ‘anti capitalism’ message, just for other reasons. not because capitalism is destroying the planet. industry is destroying the planet, and capitalism is industries bitch. if you build factories… they will come, as it were. what we gotta do is put the breaks on industry, and to do that, incidentally, we gotta hang the capitalists.
yeah but that greta clip almost gave me nightmares. it was surreal, man. that accent and that twisted face. shivers
To be clear, I don’t ascribe the new ecostupid to you, p. In that movie, you would be the priest. I also didn’t watch the movie the whole way through, as I have a low tolerance for propaganda these days. But that is what you have attached yourself to. And the disease is the same.
I had another point I think, but this whole ecotard shit makes my brain drowsy.
It’s also not true that he “died” some time after and his “followers” went on fucking with the Spanish. They were all cornered into a cliff and slaughtered.
They probably got mixed up with an Indian rebel that made some alliances with other Indians and died in more or less the way she describes. That alliance was ultimately defeated, but in the case of the Indians their followers did maintain a campaign of fucking with the Spanish that pretty much goes on to this day.
Like can the left-right dichotomy be overcome? Is that what you’re asking? Like how do western political schools of thought compare to Arabian ones? Is that the question?
You asking me to address a Muslim’s contempt for European culture? Is that it? do you think that can be answered in terms of left and right? Is Arabia just a equal but different iteration of our own society? Of a kind of Platonic society of which we are both different manifestations?
It was an open question whitey. Use your imagination to fill in the blanks. No expectations other then your point of view being where you are and what you think. It’s ain’t like I’m handing out a test or anything. Roll with your thinking not yer bitchin. A bitch has gotta bitch and a thinker has to think. I can respect a little of both, if you’d give me a little credit for being white. That shit ain’t never going to get straight. So what? You think it’s a question that refers to east and west or right and left or up and down or Greta and Iphones. I think you missed the mark. It isn’t any one of these things but all of them. You can pick your fav. But what about brainwashed? It’s like pulling fuckin teeth.
Good men like you wallowing in general musings of ambiguity and reveling in the enticing feeling of lostness from a well funded perch are what is bringing us all down. The Gretas, the real crazies are a minority. It is your allowance aligned with the stringent morality which you conveniently never question that gives them power. Greta just speaks at the UN, you all made it. You all still run it. In the sense that you fund it, really. Y’all still the ones mostly moving the money around. Fucking windmills.
A little philosophy. Ain’t gonna hurt ya. You’re in the right. Start from there.
The last time I checked on the world stage of income I fell just over the 23 percentile. That is some comfort beyond starving I agree. But fairly far from moving much money around. I’m tryin to be a good man. My wife and I live in a 100+ year old home that’s 1500 square feet. 750 square feet per person. That’s some where between France and Denmark as an average. Shit our garden is bigger then that. You suggesting despite my rank I might have a chance of meeting your expectation?
Fucking virgos is right. And 59 wasn’t a great year for philosophy.
You know that authority you feel when you chastise someone because you felt they were disrespectful or something? The one that conveniently turns into: “I’m just a simple man with a straw bed and a straw hat” whenever it is addressed? That is true wealth. Let’s imagine the old saying is true and money is not the most important thing.
Top men in certain societies would kill other top men for what you have. I understand not whipping yourself over what you have, but you could at least not be blazé about it.