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DoomsdaysCW<p>20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a>, According to Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Historian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p><p>in History | January 20th, 2017</p><p>"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarianism</span></a> during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bloodlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bloodlands</span></a>: Europe between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stalin</span></a>' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazism</span></a> wasn’t only a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalist</span></a> movement but had global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialist</span></a> origins—in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>, and in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a>, and ideologically-justified <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandGrabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandGrabs</span></a>.</p><p>"The hyper-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance." </p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2017/01/20-les</span><span class="invisible">sons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ThoughtProvoker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThoughtProvoker</span></a> :blobhyperthink: </p><p>There is the well-known saying &quot;if you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail&quot;.</p><p>We find this quite obvious, and think people who fall for this anti-pattern are foolish.</p><p>Yet here we are in our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>-encased little global world, measuring *everything*, all value, every transaction in monetary terms.</p><p>How is that not the bluntest, dumbest hammer, and most ignorant way to misperceive value of life?</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>The biggest <a href="https://social.coop/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>challenge</span></a> of the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocialWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialWeb</span></a> is that people aren&#39;t able to collaborate at scale unless under money-driven artificial <a href="https://social.coop/tags/organization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>organization</span></a> structures, based on hierarchy, authority and power dynamics.</p><p>In <a href="https://social.coop/tags/grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>grassroots</span></a> movements we think we found a better way, but we haven&#39;t. We just found the power of &quot;loose sand&quot; to - at most - sting in the bleary eyes of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a>. Not in the eyes of the crazed billionaires who are the engine of this vile system. They are laughing them bro-balls out.</p>
Christopher Miller 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevencudahy</span></a></span> &nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CreativeWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeWriting</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Challenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haiku</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Prompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prompt</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a></p><p>Air supply failed<br>Musk transmits you can be saved<br>If large surcharge paid</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElongatedMuskrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElongatedMuskrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SpaceKaren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceKaren</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>🚨 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/EnshittificationAlert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnshittificationAlert</span></a> Spotify</p><p>&quot;Oh yeah.. Bob Marlie, you say? Oh, right. Yea yea, a singer was it not? We have 2 albums on the chap, one from 1996 and 2015, and then 2 singles from 2021 and 2023 respectively. What do you say? Lyrics missing? Yea yea, it is an old singer. Dead, ya know..&quot;</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> keeps memory of Bob Marley so that no <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> bullshit dystopia may erase him from history.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley#Awards_and_honours" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marl</span><span class="invisible">ey#Awards_and_honours</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spotify</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GlobalSwitchDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GlobalSwitchDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@tasket" class="u-url mention">@<span>tasket</span></a></span> yes and no, depending how you interpret the diagram. It is obviously a gross simplification.</p><p>But in the top triangle of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a>, yes we effectively see tech so much as progress, praying to the false gods of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DigitalTransformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalTransformation</span></a> all the time (the name itself implies adaptation to tech). And for wicked problems in society we throw more tech at it, like the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> madness.</p><p>In the bottom triangle of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Neoconsciensism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Neoconsciensism</span></a> technology is merely supportive to people and society at large.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>Steve Cutts on <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Consumerism</span></a> again nailing it there.</p><p><a href="https://www.stevecutts.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">stevecutts.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9LYuJKP3A8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=u9LYuJKP3A</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@podo" class="u-url mention">@<span>podo</span></a></span> indeed.</p><p>I&#39;m all for the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scientific</span></a> method. But I was just thinking how this chocolate headline in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> gives like an armchair reassuring voice of interesting <a href="https://social.coop/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a> work.. that still has one or two decades to go before it seeps its way into actual practice in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>society</span></a>.</p><p>And that seeping follows the influences of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>. In one or two decades <a href="https://social.coop/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascism</span></a> might have long been the only still known newspeak for how fast mad tech disruptions increase overall skynet potential.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>Burdened under the heavy ⚔️ cross of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>, we shall overcome. ✊</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> is brainworm.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>First Blood was popular. And now First Truth internet search.</p><p>Same as Rambo wasn&#39;t real, yet made many people want to kill other people violently. Now DuckDuckGo&#39;s basic Truth isn&#39;t real, as first search result is an alternative fact. Is violence involved too? Killing society.</p><p>Snapshot shows DDG&#39;s search result explains the word &quot;plaid&quot; as &quot;financial technology company that enables users to connect their bank..&quot; 🤯</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DDG</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> #1984 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>search</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/BREAKING" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BREAKING</span></a>: Society</p><p>--</p><p>With 90-9-1 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ParticipationInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ParticipationInequality</span></a> percent certainty.</p><p>♾️ 1% raving mad <a href="https://social.coop/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elites</span></a> (pickaxe)</p><p>⚠️ 9% raving mad <a href="https://social.coop/tags/technoshpere" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>technoshpere</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/devs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>devs</span></a> (slaves)</p><p>⛔ 90% raving mad <a href="https://social.coop/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>users</span></a> (ore)</p><p><a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nngroup.com/articles/participa</span><span class="invisible">tion-inequality/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/SX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SX</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RealityFault" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RealityFault</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/InsertSystemsChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InsertSystemsChange</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Reboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reboot</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/PostCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PostCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/PostGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PostGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Now" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Now</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>⚠️ <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WARN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WARN</span></a> Severe <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RealityFault" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RealityFault</span></a>. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AlternativeReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlternativeReality</span></a> encountered. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TruthMissing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TruthMissing</span></a>.</p><p>⛔ <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FAULT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FAULT</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> recursion. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Realspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Realspeak</span></a> correction route 404_NOT_FOUND. Call <a href="https://social.coop/tags/OrwellSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrwellSupport</span></a> for patch to <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocietySystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocietySystems</span></a></p><p>♾️ INFO <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orwell</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HealthSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HealthSupport</span></a>. We invert it to make it <a href="https://social.coop/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>right</span></a>. From <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Skynet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Skynet</span></a> to <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Peopleverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peopleverse</span></a> we serve <a href="https://social.coop/tags/YOU" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YOU</span></a>. Please dial <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CriticalThinking101" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriticalThinking101</span></a> for our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WickedSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WickedSolution</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DeliveryService" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeliveryService</span></a></p><p>♾️ INFO Insert Realspeak <a href="https://social.coop/tags/patchNOW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>patchNOW</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Reboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reboot</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113881914450747944" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.coop/@smallcircles/1138</span><span class="invisible">81914450747944</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ThoughtProvoker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThoughtProvoker</span></a> :blobhyperthink:</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> IS our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/UbiquitousLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UbiquitousLanguage</span></a> for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DDD</span></a> of Society in 2025. Almost!</p><p>Next time when <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orwell</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Huxley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Huxley</span></a> come up in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>discourse</span></a> remember:</p><p>We live in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dystopia</span></a> NOW!<br />Unseen by our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DistractionEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DistractionEconomy</span></a> blindfolds.</p><p>We&#39;re the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RootCause" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RootCause</span></a> of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> temperature rise:</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a></p><p>Vice has free reign as <a href="https://social.coop/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>truth</span></a> is destroyed.</p><p>We MUST be <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Plainspeaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plainspeaking</span></a><br />We MUST use <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommonSense" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CommonSense</span></a><br />We MUST restore <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reality</span></a></p><p>✊</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ShowerThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShowerThought</span></a> 🤔</p><p>🌻 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nature</span></a> is about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>energy</span></a>. </p><p>🏭 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> disempowers.</p><p>🌻 Nature is about blossoming.</p><p>🏭 Hypercapitalism decays.</p><p>🌻 Nature is about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolution</span></a>. </p><p>🏭 Hypercapitalism devolves.</p><p>🌻 Nature is about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>growth</span></a>. </p><p>🏭 Hypercapitalism erodes.</p><p>Nature. Try some. It is <a href="https://social.coop/tags/healthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>healthy</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/nutritious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nutritious</span></a>. Now for sale or for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>free</span></a>.</p><p>(Under hypercapitalism no price guaranteed)</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> ♻️ ✊</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>If you think you can slay the beast of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a> from inside the beast&#39;s stomach, then good luck with your <a href="https://social.coop/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>activism</span></a>. I will do something positive and uplifting till the end of days, rather than engage in a lost fight.</p><p>We might do something else, and try activate 7 billion people to collaborate a tad more productively, for instance. Not *within* a system that is designed to not let that happen at all cost, though.</p><p>But first, let&#39;s not rhyme with history, please.<br />Can <a href="https://social.coop/tags/mankind" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mankind</span></a> even learn?</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@mysteriarch" class="u-url mention">@<span>mysteriarch</span></a></span> </p><p>Extinction rebellion think so. A group most folks either forgot or annoys them.</p><p>It can spark violent events to enact radical change. To uncertain outcomes and not to my knowledge (but I&#39;m no historian) likely to lead to a whole alternative system. Certain not I expect leading to end of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>. It just continues on the other side of the revolution.</p><p>Sacrifice <a href="https://social.coop/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>activism</span></a> can only form the tip of the spear and the whole solution behind it is momentum for sustainable change.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@mysteriarch" class="u-url mention">@<span>mysteriarch</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes.. I was just musing a bit on the terms. There&#39;s wordplay in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Regrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Regrowth</span></a> in that it also means starting anew i.e. create a wholly alternative system to that of world-destroying <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://social.coop/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> seed sprouted a horrendous meat-eating fungus. Need to replant a new organic system to take over and collectively kindle a seedling to regrow <a href="https://social.coop/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanity</span></a> into healthy <a href="https://social.coop/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sustainability</span></a>-first direction. So there&#39;s a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>future</span></a> for mankind, and not <a href="https://social.coop/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>extinction</span></a>.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Showerthought" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Showerthought</span></a> 🤔</p><p>1. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/paywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>paywall</span></a>? 😫</p><p>2. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommercialScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CommercialScience</span></a> wall 🤢</p><p>3. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> delight 😍</p><p><a href="https://delightful.club/delightful-open-science" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">delightful.club/delightful-ope</span><span class="invisible">n-science</span></a></p><p>&quot;Commercial science&quot; is a good term to denounce this shady practice that withholds knowledge and wisdom discovered with public money in order to use it for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a> and its greed fests.</p><p>Yes, you <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> &amp; co.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Disruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Disruption</span></a> is a power hammer under <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> that involves rug pulling, a key tenet of this system, whereby own benefit prevails to any negative externalities. Ruthlessness is a ROI maximiser here, and the toolbox is full of vices.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Evolution</span></a> is a gardening rake under <a href="https://social.coop/tags/commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>commons</span></a> control that involves nourishing mutual value, a key tenet of this system, whereby opportunity and benefit fosters natural cohesion. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Humanity</span></a> is a growth factor here, and the toolbox our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/virtues" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>virtues</span></a> as human beings.</p>