What concerns me is that we have all these serious ecological crises and they are apparently not registering with the voting public at all.
They are not very fun topics - it is not exactly the click bait friendly stuff that what goes viral.
I think this culture of memes and videos -that is part of the Idiocracy.
I tried to repress my doubts as this election season I saw all these memes and vids and cheerleading and I thought for the nth time I would suspend my skeptic ism. But again it turns out that instinct is not one to suppress.
I really think the net has marginal utility at this point re real change. I love DU but the net as a whole I am starting to think is a source of a lot of the Idiocracy.
Hey I get it..I like to shut off my brain and stare bleakly at “garbage non issue or nontroversy of the day” over think of how many species are being driven to extinction, how many more animals factory farmed etc etc
But it is not “hippie, tree-huggers virtue signalling” or whatever the fuck. It isn’t as if unless you are being overtly crass in the kakistocracy sense somehow you are impractical. There are selfish and unselfish reasons to protect the planet one lives on. Myopia and greed aside there are not even any selfish reasons to devastate your home planet with industrial overgrowth sans any regulation, population explosion and overconsumption. It doesn’t help that religion/superstition/consumerism are valued over science. Finally, we will talk about just about anything else.
And with so many damn religions (all at war with each other and with enlightenment ideals) etc when will we even get around to anything else?
And the poster just above me got it exactly right. Identity politics is politics. And Elon musk and Peter Thiel are playing it..they just don’t call it that.
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