It has become far more obvious that our rulers have no intention of taking any action that will stop climate catastrophe. Just like with the pandemic, their preferred option is the pretence of action but the actuality of continued production for profit.
The only way that we will save the planet and our health is through our own self-activity.
We live in a class society and the ruling class is driving us full speed over a cliff. Instead of putting their foot on the brakes, they have their foot firmly on the accelerator!
The old choice of a hundred years ago, posed by Rosa Luxembourg, is "Socialism or barbarism".
They have no such intention because there is no "climate catastrophe"...
OPERATION COVIDIUS was indeed a FUN PCR pandemic... those that still don't know by now this simple fact are the ones that also believe CO2 from uman activities is causing "climate catastrophe"!
We are way better at destroying Ecosystems... But even that we don't care much. Our Cities are so glorious that we fly around just to waste Time taking pictures of them.
And since all the ism's are a product of an Unbalanced Thought it really isn't a matter of "or".
Nate, great piece where you hold yourself accountable. But you were late to the party. And boy do I know how we get steeped in bullshit about our great leaders with the greatest intentions.
In the US there was a president who recognized that climate change and resource depletion where real problems that needed more than a hand wave: Jimmy Carter. (Yes, I am aware that Carter was a neoliberal which would create conflict and contradictions with addressing climate and resource issues in his never to come second term.) Carter in 1977 gave a speech in a cardigan advocating reducing energy use which was nail one in the losing the next election coffin. Not overturning Nixon's imposition of a 55 mph (88 kph) interstate highway speed limit was another apostasy. (Another nail!) The lid on that coffin was firmly sealed with the malaise speech and the Iranian takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.
The night of Reagan's victory, I was talking on a pay phone long distance to my future wife about how this was the end for our nation. I was too limited in my lament. Reagan was the detonator cap for the end of any possibility of salvaging a happy ending to our climate dilemma.
Reagan received a lot of support from people now long dead. But there are ardent supporters still alive who give wholesale allegiance to burning most mammals off the planet.
It still stuns me that people lack the imagination to see that living with less is in the long term the only way for living to continue in some familiar form.
After 10,000 years, maybe we should just call off this whole experiment in civilization. It always cycles back into failure, each time destroying a little more of our habitat. This time, it's pumped so much poison into the world that it threatens another mass extinction event that may take our species down with it.
Hunter gatherers lived long, happy lives for a couple hundred thousand years. They were mostly disease-free, and the planet remained healthy too. But you know, then along came PROGRESS. It's been downhill ever since.
Nobody with an ounce of sociological understanding can think this species of ultrasocial lethal predators can step away from the supersystemic processes of industrial extraction and production.
Substack should not become another corporate fossil fuel data center Keep Hopium Alive delivery device, and neither should you. The damage is too great, and it is mounting.
Carefully curated 'memories' of the glories of Earth are all that will be available. They are trying to wean us off our Mother already with cheap spiritless substitutes, kind of like that infant formula full of HFSC and GMO canola oil. Virtual 'reality' with orchestrated emotions. Mostly fear.
My dawning realization of horror came about in the early twenty teens as I watched a friend complete their public health phd about the effects of wildfire smoke on downstream populations. The knowledge they unlocked led to them making huge, long term changes in their life, and it rippled over into my life as I watched my friend’s worst projections come true. We had our baby in early 2015, and he’s given us a reason to live and a huge sense of guilt at the fucked up future we’re all crashing into.
"Yarvin goes on to state that, starting in 2025, “we” are going to make America “insanely great.” How are we going to do that? Well, the first step, as I outlined in my previous post on Yarvin, is RAGE/DOGE.
Quoting Yarvin: “We’ve got to risk a full power start—a full reboot of the USG. We can only do this by giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization—with roughly the powers that the Allied occupation authorities held in Japan and Germany in the fall of 1945. This level of centralized emergency power worked to refound a nation then, for them. So it should work now, for us.”
This, of course, is RAGE, which in Yarvin’s post he links to the same video I linked in my post, the 2012 speech Yarvin gave at the BIL conference outlining a reboot of the US Government. I made a compelling and direct link to Curtis Yarvin’s RAGE and Elon Musk’s DOGE. They are effectively the same thing. If you know anything about your World War II history, then you will recall that the Allied occupation of Japan/Germany was effectively a temporary dictatorship by martial law. This is what Yarvin explicitly advocates here, under the qualifier that it will be an “emergency power.” The funny thing about emergencies is that they have a tendency to last in perpetuity.
Quoting Yarvin: “What Trump is going to do is to build this regime-in-exile or occupation authority as a private and (needless to say) peaceful institution—a larva. By winning a Presidential election, he will then install it in office.”
Again, Yarvin wrote this in 2022. Here he advocates that Trump establish a sort of shadow government in-exile. "
Yes, saving our planet has been BS the whole time. Glad you mentioned Obama’s role in fracking. Great oratory fixes nothing. How can one not understand doom in a country that has elected Trump twice? We’ve been wasting our opportunities ever since the 1970s when Big Oil’s own scientists predicted global warming with considerable precision.
Anyone with eyes could see the die was cast over 50 years ago. Maybe 5000 years ago when we thought we “mastered” nature. But humans always lean towards self-interest, and fail to see interconnectedness.
Those of us living during the final stage of this cycle will have to adapt. There is no choice.
"The myth of a civilisation.", and we sure are willing to cull each other for it... we've been doing it for Millennia. From the Cave civilization to the current Skyscrapers one!
It has become far more obvious that our rulers have no intention of taking any action that will stop climate catastrophe. Just like with the pandemic, their preferred option is the pretence of action but the actuality of continued production for profit.
The only way that we will save the planet and our health is through our own self-activity.
We live in a class society and the ruling class is driving us full speed over a cliff. Instead of putting their foot on the brakes, they have their foot firmly on the accelerator!
The old choice of a hundred years ago, posed by Rosa Luxembourg, is "Socialism or barbarism".
They have no such intention because there is no "climate catastrophe"...
OPERATION COVIDIUS was indeed a FUN PCR pandemic... those that still don't know by now this simple fact are the ones that also believe CO2 from uman activities is causing "climate catastrophe"!
We are way better at destroying Ecosystems... But even that we don't care much. Our Cities are so glorious that we fly around just to waste Time taking pictures of them.
And since all the ism's are a product of an Unbalanced Thought it really isn't a matter of "or".
Nate, great piece where you hold yourself accountable. But you were late to the party. And boy do I know how we get steeped in bullshit about our great leaders with the greatest intentions.
In the US there was a president who recognized that climate change and resource depletion where real problems that needed more than a hand wave: Jimmy Carter. (Yes, I am aware that Carter was a neoliberal which would create conflict and contradictions with addressing climate and resource issues in his never to come second term.) Carter in 1977 gave a speech in a cardigan advocating reducing energy use which was nail one in the losing the next election coffin. Not overturning Nixon's imposition of a 55 mph (88 kph) interstate highway speed limit was another apostasy. (Another nail!) The lid on that coffin was firmly sealed with the malaise speech and the Iranian takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.
The night of Reagan's victory, I was talking on a pay phone long distance to my future wife about how this was the end for our nation. I was too limited in my lament. Reagan was the detonator cap for the end of any possibility of salvaging a happy ending to our climate dilemma.
Reagan received a lot of support from people now long dead. But there are ardent supporters still alive who give wholesale allegiance to burning most mammals off the planet.
It still stuns me that people lack the imagination to see that living with less is in the long term the only way for living to continue in some familiar form.
So Nate, you did not fail me, I failed you.
After 10,000 years, maybe we should just call off this whole experiment in civilization. It always cycles back into failure, each time destroying a little more of our habitat. This time, it's pumped so much poison into the world that it threatens another mass extinction event that may take our species down with it.
Hunter gatherers lived long, happy lives for a couple hundred thousand years. They were mostly disease-free, and the planet remained healthy too. But you know, then along came PROGRESS. It's been downhill ever since.
Shit's toast, fam. Nothing wrong in saying that.
Nobody with an ounce of sociological understanding can think this species of ultrasocial lethal predators can step away from the supersystemic processes of industrial extraction and production.
Substack should not become another corporate fossil fuel data center Keep Hopium Alive delivery device, and neither should you. The damage is too great, and it is mounting.
Carefully curated 'memories' of the glories of Earth are all that will be available. They are trying to wean us off our Mother already with cheap spiritless substitutes, kind of like that infant formula full of HFSC and GMO canola oil. Virtual 'reality' with orchestrated emotions. Mostly fear.
Beautiful and heartfelt.
Thanks Tony
Nate you're an utter sweetie
My dawning realization of horror came about in the early twenty teens as I watched a friend complete their public health phd about the effects of wildfire smoke on downstream populations. The knowledge they unlocked led to them making huge, long term changes in their life, and it rippled over into my life as I watched my friend’s worst projections come true. We had our baby in early 2015, and he’s given us a reason to live and a huge sense of guilt at the fucked up future we’re all crashing into.
Such honest writing and I saw myself in glances
I went through all those stages also. TESCREALism and Techno-feudalism clutch at our throats now.
https://jfhatfield.substack.com/p/explaining-the-new-right-an-interlude
"Yarvin goes on to state that, starting in 2025, “we” are going to make America “insanely great.” How are we going to do that? Well, the first step, as I outlined in my previous post on Yarvin, is RAGE/DOGE.
Quoting Yarvin: “We’ve got to risk a full power start—a full reboot of the USG. We can only do this by giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization—with roughly the powers that the Allied occupation authorities held in Japan and Germany in the fall of 1945. This level of centralized emergency power worked to refound a nation then, for them. So it should work now, for us.”
This, of course, is RAGE, which in Yarvin’s post he links to the same video I linked in my post, the 2012 speech Yarvin gave at the BIL conference outlining a reboot of the US Government. I made a compelling and direct link to Curtis Yarvin’s RAGE and Elon Musk’s DOGE. They are effectively the same thing. If you know anything about your World War II history, then you will recall that the Allied occupation of Japan/Germany was effectively a temporary dictatorship by martial law. This is what Yarvin explicitly advocates here, under the qualifier that it will be an “emergency power.” The funny thing about emergencies is that they have a tendency to last in perpetuity.
Quoting Yarvin: “What Trump is going to do is to build this regime-in-exile or occupation authority as a private and (needless to say) peaceful institution—a larva. By winning a Presidential election, he will then install it in office.”
Again, Yarvin wrote this in 2022. Here he advocates that Trump establish a sort of shadow government in-exile. "
Yes, saving our planet has been BS the whole time. Glad you mentioned Obama’s role in fracking. Great oratory fixes nothing. How can one not understand doom in a country that has elected Trump twice? We’ve been wasting our opportunities ever since the 1970s when Big Oil’s own scientists predicted global warming with considerable precision.
Doom reins…or doom reigns? It’s both.
Anyone with eyes could see the die was cast over 50 years ago. Maybe 5000 years ago when we thought we “mastered” nature. But humans always lean towards self-interest, and fail to see interconnectedness.
Those of us living during the final stage of this cycle will have to adapt. There is no choice.
Yeah meant the g one
I try not to be that person who nitpicks about spelling….but doom DOES rein us in…it limits our choices.
So I was going for the positive spin with or without the “g”.
Part of surviving the end times means we have to work together. 😉 I appreciate you.
Thank you! I'm not salty its my tone sometimes. And I really did mean the g one
It's. Lest I be accused of the non possessive
doom does indeed reign! i notice rein/reign is one of those typos that pops up nonstop, kind of like effect/affect.
i hope you can forgive me!
love your writing & perspectives, nate. please forgive us english teacher types' pickiness! (even when we don't capitalize!)
"The myth of a civilisation.", and we sure are willing to cull each other for it... we've been doing it for Millennia. From the Cave civilization to the current Skyscrapers one!
Carry on...
nothin' like a doomy rant over my first cuppa
much appreciated, Nate
Cheers Les!