Category: Reflections
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Lawns and lost energy
Originally published by Ecocore. Neo-liberal capitalism seldom accounts for the energy spent in pursuit of useless aesthetics. By useless, I mean items and activities that lead to environmental degradation without providing much social and public value. Capitalism allows your desires to be pursued without a need to justify them. The freedom it provides is built…
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The anarchist prepper
Prepping has often been politically associated with right-wing libertarians or the extreme right. The individualist tendency to prepare for extreme scenarios has often been based on a naive interpretation of the black swan theory. The individualist wants to save himself (most of them are men), their family and maybe some friends. Right-wing Libertarian preppers project…
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Undoing nihilism
Neo-liberal capitalism is nihilist at its core. That’s not news. Its global extraction and built-in exponential growth through GDP will eventually turn the earth into nothing. Neo-liberal capitalism rejects value-based judgement and destroys the life-creating potential of humans and nature. It eliminates the cycle of death you find in nature; nature’s death is life-generating through…