Notices by TobiWanKenobi (tobiwankenobi@kolektiva.social)

@matthannon I left when Elmo took over and never regretted it. Mastodon takes some time to get used to, but it's well worth it and I discover amazing, new people and communities on a regular basis.

@hollybrigstocke

"You can't just dive in and meddle with a system which keeps food on everyone's table"

No doubt that the capitalistic system has been a wonderful way to solve the problem it was accelerating itself in the ~200 years of its broader existence. Just the side-effect it causes are too dangerous as we can see with the drastic climate change gaining in drive. So it's not a question of "can't" anymore but a choice between "must" or "will be forced to" 🙂

@quietmarc @MarkRNay @breadandcircuses

@breadandcircuses

All civilizations come to an end at some point. This one is on its final stretch. Mos people don't even realize just how radical the changes would need to be to fix this mess - on a global scale.

What would be necessary across the whole world is massive De-Growth and De-Industrialization, abolition of capitalistic systems (be it democratic or authoritarian), switch to a closed-loop economy, massive renaturation/reforestation where possible, complete change in diet away from any sort of meat, etc.

Yet, what many people believe is some sort of "Green Growth and Technology will solve it all, so we don't have to change anything," resulting in the climate crisis passing like so many other crisis did

And since so many people hope that this dream will miraculously come true, the tragedy will take its course.

I just feel sad for the children being born into this world these days. They haven't deserved any of this.

@MarkRNay

Capitalism as a principle exists for ~200 years while humans (homo sapiens) as a species exist for ~300k years. So why would you say something as insignificant on the time scale as capitalism is grounded in human nature? If you want to claim that political/economic systems can be part "of human nature," which I would counterargue, shouldn't we all live under dictatorships since for the last several dozens of thousands years that has been the prevalent system?

@yma @breadandcircuses