Sounds like that movie the Obamas made 'Leave the World Behind'. Guys... I think this is it. The trump administration has gone idiocratic accelerationist. Brace. Prepare. If you don't like words like "prepper" then use the environmentalist term "adapt in place". Know your community. Community is what will save us. Make a new human connection in person. At least one. When you achieve that go beyond it. Become a pillar of your community, a fixture, and do it as quickly as possible. Be a benefit.
Fisherman75
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Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I'm not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.
I don't understand what they hate about the (now) old world order, what they were and I think still calling "the new world order". I understand what I hate about it, I just don't understand what they hate about it. THEY are the new world order now, they and their dictator friends abroad. Whenever there is a new world order forms (yes, deictically it's relative to the formation of world orders in their historical contingency) it seems like it is announced often with that exact term "new world order". It would be incredibly ironic if he were to use those words today. But it's as if he could. I would so rather be under George H.W. Bush's adminstration though, if I were to pick my poison. But I think right now the hegemony belongs to the PRC, from a descriptivist standpoint (not prescriptivist) - he's a PRC pawn.
They're doing some weird things right now I think. I was posting a big paragraph about peak oil on slrpnk.net a couple hours ago and that's when slrpnk went down. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
I started voting green party when I realized that that was the system - lesser of two evils. To me, it doesn't feel like the least of all evils, it just feels a little disappointing as a third party almost inherently. But then I get a second wind sometimes and concert myself to making something of it.
I am aware, but it makes me finicky. Irks me irrationally.
Technically that would make king charles my head of state seeing as I live in California. Not into that. A lot of pros/advantages though, I'll say that much.
It's the consumption of an idea. There's very little in the way of substance at Starbucks. I achieved more than any Starbucks order by grinding my folgers classic roast just now while using an unbleached compostable coffee filter and having cleaned the coffee maker with all natural biodegradeable dish soap. Can't afford good coffee grounds right now, but recently I had 'Punk Goes The Bunny', Billie Joe Armstrong's (from Green Day) coffee brand.
But here I am wondering if I'm just consuming a bunch of ideas myself. Consuming the idea of Punk Rock for instance, or eco-friendliness, or health. But then I catch myself and say "Those are tangible benefits." Anything more likely to make me listen to The Clash is a positive, anything that's not gonna put bleach in my body, anything that's gonna be clean for making coffee but without such a residue of dangerous chemicals as is typical with cleaners, and anything to add to my compost.
Like russian nesting dolls. Just starbucks all the way down.
Yeah as I go read more it seems like what I'm more concerned with is OSAT (open source appropriate technology) where there is heavy consideration of sustainability. Also some of the things people are mentioning here which seems to kind of overlap - open source ecology, right to repair, etc. I think though I'm kind of wanting like a deliberate synthesis of all of this, the whole range of issues, almost like the intersection of 'green politics' and open source everything. I feel like that intersection doesn't get nearly enough attention. I don't know if it's because the 'science wars' make it a little awkward or what.
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Trump makes a variety of compliment sandwiches. It's hard to tell after a while just what kind of sandwich it is.