Hello all. Happy Friday the 13th for those who haven’t crossed into Saturday yet.
Recommended readings: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
Hopeful glint: A video by Andrewism. https://youtu.be/j42RbUjofm0?si=zh9lNJpAuxcx2-qN
Based
Based? Based on what?
Based on ligma
Capitalism bad OK?
Anyone that has the most basic grasp on history realizes that although there are problems in our society we are living at one of the most prosperous times in the history.
Fucking idiots
Let us return to the above quote, specifically the section that refers to your incredible privilege and social insulation. Go tell my friend in Ghana that he lives in one of the most prosperous times in history, and he’ll ask you prosperous for whom? Not him, surely. The multinational corporations that rape his country for raw materials and abuse his countrymen? Yes, definitely a prosperous time for them.
Prosperity isn’t just equally distributed around the world, or even within one country. The US has sections in worse condition than many undeveloped nations, and millions of residents without access to adequate nutrition or long term housing prospects. The prosperity of the few relies upon the suffering of the many in our system. Many of my own luxuries are themselves dependent upon exploitation and suffering of other groups of people, not inherently, but regardless it is true, and a lot of effort is spent to ensure any possible alternatives that may arise are sabotaged as much as possible.
Today is a better time to live in Ghana than any other. Life expectancy has gone way up and infant mortality has gone way down in Ghana. It’s indisputable that people living in Ghana live way worse lives than people in developed countries but to say the apocalypse is coming to Ghana makes very little sense as the word apocalypse means total collapse.
lets return to the above quote, specifically that on average on all countries people are again on average living in the best conditions on history
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Fun challenge of the day: read everything in the voice of Terrence McKenna. It makes other people’s comments much more interesting, mystic almost… like, imagine McKenna reading you recipes or the terms and conditions of a Dollar General coupon or whatever.
It would help to listen to Shpongle in the background while doing this.
What should I read by Terrence McKenna? I am.completely unfamiliar.
He’s kinda a weird dude, honestly. He’s a big psychedelic advocate, and he wrote the book Food of the Gods in which he proposed his Stoned Ape Theory, as well as a lot of other books, but honestly I try not to take his conclusions too seriously, and just enjoy the natural poetic nature of his speeches, a lot of which are available on YouTube.
Oh cool! I will go find those instead then.
Is this that magician guy?
I don’t think he did magic. He’s more of an ethnobotanist and psychedelic advocate.
