"Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - ThreadSky

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nilsgilman.bsky.social • 29 days ago

"Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/05/humans-earth-donald-trump-nihilism-maga

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nickroutledge.bsky.social•28 days ago

1/5 They're hardly alone. 'The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth' construct is a universal, religious trope. Hence, the vacant transcendence of 'Rapture' fantasies and, more significantly perhaps, a commonplace, quotidian abrogation of what it takes to be fully and fundamentally human.

nickroutledge.bsky.social•28 days ago

2/ Then again, the seismic wrong-footedness of symbolic universes unhinged from Earth Reality isn't a 'religious' phenomenon as much as modernity's root, ontological misstep, sustained, of course, by dominative structures of consciousness characterized by a form of wishful escapism from...

nickroutledge.bsky.social•28 days ago

3/ "... a subordinate space...whether as a sinful plane, riddled with temptation, needing to be transcended and left behind; or a menacing region needing to be beaten and bent to our will; or a vaguely disturbing dimension to be avoided, superseded and explained away." (David Abram)

nickroutledge.bsky.social•28 days ago

4/ One of the more astute takedowns of the entire fallacy issues from the S. Asian prophet contemplative, Kabir, who never shied from declaring such "throwing of intensity forward" precisely the same error affording religious and secular powers their credence and authority.
https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1550099923588198400

nickroutledge.bsky.social•28 days ago

end/ He didn't mince words. "Pandit, you’ve got it wrong. Your ideas are false. What is found now is found then." To imagine otherwise? “Pure fantasy. Find nothing here, you’ll simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.” Not escape from the Earth, then, but arrival. https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1875579645170708567

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