• wanderingmagus
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      12 months ago

      Thing is, human nature has been shaped to make alternatives feel impossible to achieve and any effort in that direction pointless to engage in. This was and is an ongoing project of generations of trauma, imposed norms and rules, hierarchies and conditioning; even if they are later educated to understand the predicament they are in, the conditioning is strong enough to dissuade all but the rare few not to do anything. Remember, feudalism lasted for over a thousand years.

      • Flying Squid
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        12 months ago

        I don’t think we have another thousand years.

        I don’t know that we have another hundred years.

        Not if the planet has stopped warming and no one’s told me about it.