So the world is ending ... now what?
Kingsnorth falls back on a reactionary vision of nationhood. ... This is the age-old vision of mother nature as essence that’s been used to prop up all manner of bad ideologies such as colonialism, racism, sexism, and homophobia in the name of what is “natural.”
I think the answer has to be that the Post-Doom community (such as it is) can't be an end point. It has to be a waystation--a pausing point on the way to a discussion with a wider community which includes peoples who have already experienced apocalypses and people who have been experiencing collapse all their lives. Rather than being the answer, Post-Doom can only ever point the way to a…
“[I]t turns out that extending rights to other-than-human beings is much harder for most people to imagine than giving rights to a corporation. The reason is that we've all been indoctrinated in a particular theory of rights: classical liberalism."
“The police are an increasingly militarized arm of an increasingly fascist state, hired thugs for capitalist oligarchs, the modern-day version of slave catchers, a terrorist organization. When I came to see this, then abolishing the police didn't seem so crazy anymore."
UUism has got to be one of the most democratic religious institutions on the planet. Yet, it is hardly democratic at all.
Thanos saw a universe populated by beings who had exceed the limits of the nature. As he saw it, there were only two possibilities, either voluntarily check the growth of life or let nature do it for us. Thanos chose the former path, because the latter would involve incalculably more suffering. The Avengers movies are fiction, but the dilemma posed by Thanos is a real one.
Two different visions of humankind’s relationship with the natural world: the one viewing nature as a something to be bent to the will of humankind, the other viewing nature as something to which humankind must bend.
What will it take for human beings to change? I think, maybe, it would take dying.
“We are not going to be saved."
“We’re f**ked. Now what?"