Paraphrasing from the field of research, there’s no such thing as apolitical, everyone’s got a political position whether we acknowledge it or state it explicitly or not. The opposite of politics isn’t “no politics” it’s bad politics.
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 18:03:42 JST Scott Matter
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 16:54:46 JST Scott Matter
How much better would America be if folks like this collected guitars instead of guns…
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 16:46:48 JST Scott Matter
I think of it as much more than a political position.
Degrowth is about decolonizing our cultures and value-systems.
Maybe concepts like “well-being” and “sufficiency” frame it more positively, but they’re also easy to co-opt without the explicit anti-growth framing, as has happened with sustainability
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 07:36:48 JST Scott Matter
“Abolish” is a messy word. Brings to mind authoritarian rule.
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 07:36:46 JST Scott Matter
I mean, Capitalism itself is an absurdity built on a delusion. The core of it is a magical black box that claims to always and only output more than the input. It claims - and demands - infinite exponential growth to keep running.
Capitalists try to run as much as they can through that black box, while also keeping control of the box and attempting to hoard as much of the output in the fewest hands possible. They also use the wealth and influence their black box affords them to put as much of the waste and burden of running the box as possible on other people.
There’s no place for this deadly machine in a sustainable, survivable future on Earth.
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 23:59:29 JST Scott Matter
Sending your remains to space is the ultimate manifestation of culture:nature dualism. Imagine wanting to be permanently separated from the rest of the living planet.
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 07:01:42 JST Scott Matter
We need more examples of what lives can be like through #degrowth
Here’s one story:
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 19:49:24 JST Scott Matter
Oddly reminds me of the Dylan tune, “with god on our side”
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Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 21:02:07 JST Scott Matter
Electronic mail is so confusing. Why do I need to choose a provider and how do I even decide? And once I have an address, how do I find my friends’ addresses and send them letters? Will I only be able to send letters to people using the same provider?