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  1. A Society of Discontents

    Their purpose is to create a hole within you that never gets filled up.

    The latest version of the newest model of the most recent rendition of the smartphone, TV, tablet, computer, or gadget is one that you cannot live without.

    That is what they tell you.

    The snap crackle pop of the latest pop music crackles with the static of love without commitment, fame without responsibility, an endless party while the world burns, shadow puppets on the stage.

    Buy what I am selling, they say.

    My house is bigger than yours. My tummy and butt are tighter. My penis is larger. My breasts are perfect. I have the face of a goddess. I am the perfect lover. I do not have ED or PE. My children are prodigies. My car is shiny. My vacations are dreamy. My investments are sound. I am more than financially secure. I am the Joneses times a million.

    You can keep up, they say.

    How dare anyone threaten this lifestyle? Missiles, drones, ships, jets, weapons of mass destruction, bombs smart and dumb, they can always come up with a reason, something or someone to fear, to launch destruction.

    Aren’t you a patriot? They ask.

    Fill it up. Take a long swig. Stuff your face, your pockets, your house, your shopping cart and grocery bags, with as much as it, they, you can hold.

    Funny how it is never enough.

    September 13, 2014

    #Advertising #bodyImage #celebrityCulture #Comparison #consumerCulture #Consumerism #Contentment #culturalCritique #Discontent #eerieImage #emptiness #endlessDesire #envy #excess #falsePromises #fearAndControl #Greed #hollowSelf #longing #Materialism #mediaSaturation #militarism #neverEnough #Patriotism #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #SmartPhone #socialCritique #spectacle #SpiritualHunger #statusAnxiety #technologyAddiction #toxicCulture #warEconomy
  2. The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project

    * "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."

    "We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

    * End Times Fascism
    And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
    us.macmillan.com/books/9780374
    #earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books

  3. The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project

    * "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."

    "We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

    * End Times Fascism
    And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
    us.macmillan.com/books/9780374
    #earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books

  4. The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project

    * "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."

    "We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

    * End Times Fascism
    And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
    us.macmillan.com/books/9780374
    #earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books

  5. The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project

    * "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."

    "We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

    * End Times Fascism
    And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
    us.macmillan.com/books/9780374
    #earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books

  6. The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project

    * "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."

    "We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

    * End Times Fascism
    And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
    us.macmillan.com/books/9780374
    #earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books

  7. “15 years in prison – just because he opposes the war”: voices from Germany call for the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk

    On Sunday, 6 September, at 3 p.m., the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) will hold a rally…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #authoritarian #democraticrights #fascism #fascist #militarism #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #War
    europesays.com/germany/85367/

  8. The “Ulm 5”: How Germany is criminalising opposition to the Gaza genocide

    The ‘Ulm 5’ [Photo: Ulm 5] A trial has been underway since April 27, 2026 that is setting…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #anti-war #democraticrights #ElbitSystems #fairtrial #militarism #PalestineAction #Stuttgart-Stammheim
    europesays.com/germany/44309/

  9. A quotation from William James

    Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. Showing war’s irrationality and horror is of no effect upon him. The horrors make the fascination. War is the strong life; it is life in extremis; war-taxes are the only ones men never hesitate to pay; as the budgets of all nations show us.

    William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
    Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/78820/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #humannature #militarism #violence #war

  10. @Br0m3x
    Its unfortunate to see a sustained increase #fossilFuel usage, which is of course inevitable alongside the human suffering that goes with #militarism.

    We're agast at the #corporateMedia continuing to give credence to one corrupted/malignant side. Its obvious these #industrialists are enjoying their longterm investments in #humanSuffering.

    We hope maligned actors see their errors and conflict ends so we can focus on real problems.

    FYI #RT is accessible outside #Europe with #TorBrowser.