
BAI LAN: A REFUSAL TO LIVE LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK
What appears to us as a stable environment may rely on a great deal of terrible suffering
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What appears to us as a stable environment may rely on a great deal of terrible suffering

NOW FREE: While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon.

The three major threats to our survival as humans are the ecological crisis, the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence, and the danger of military self-destruction.

We created our world, but it overwhelms us; we cannot grasp or control it.

NOW FREE: There is no way back; every such attempt to restore old greatness ends up in new, brutal barbarism

While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon.

NOW FREE: There is a form of perversion at work today which allows us to avoid shame.

There is no way back; every such attempt to restore old greatness ends up in new, brutal barbarism

There is a form of perversion at work today which allows us to avoid shame.
NOW FREE: The cyborg is a byproduct of violence and exploitation

The rich are rich also because the poor are poor