• Vegafjord demcon@lemmy.ml
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          I’ll admit that I am not clean, but I’ll also say that this is a consumerist framing which is benefitting might and machine. We are all sinners in one shape or another under the machine because we rely on the machine.

          We live under planned economies governed by the eternal hunger of the machine. They sell us shit on stick through advertisements, media control and machine collaboration.

          We loken these monstrocities through the dissolvement of the machine through making oppositional societies that by grounds embrace the meaningful, and being opposed to might and machine.

          • Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            How about you just try to minimise the hold the machine has on you instead of ranting poetically? And don’t start with the old ‘no ethical consumption under capitalism’ because you don’t need to actively make the world a worse place by choosing the most destructive means of consumption available to you.

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              Ranting poetically is how we change the world, mate. Its called getting the message accross instead of using language that only highly educated people understands.

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              it’s pretty easy to be *mostly vegetarian, being fully vegetarian is a lot harder for those who are used to eating meat.

              It’s an important distinction to make, we’re not going to convince people by being perfectionists, we convince people by actually helping them change their habits.

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              I tried to go vegan once. Didnt go well. Probably easy for you, but I couldnt do it. Probably sais something about how pathetic I am as a human being.

              Thanks, I feel like shit now.

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      Slightly?

      As the dominant species we should take better care of the world.

      But, I guess shareholder value is more important.

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        That’s what billionaires who are exploiting the planet and the people want you to believe. They want you to think you are the problem. But if that were true, you could also fix it. Can you? No. Can the billionaires? YES.

        They are the fucking monsters! Leeching off of others and giving nothing back. Fucking parasites that need to die in order to save the planet. Humans can live in peace with nature and have been for eons, until capitalism took rise.

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            Food is not some luxury. People need to eat. If they don’t eat fish they will eat something else.

            You are implying that farming is more sustainable, but it’s not. Over farming, over fishing, over anything is bad. And the only reason it happens is billionaire greed.

            Stop blaming people who are barely making ends meet, living wage to wage and buying whatever food they can afford.

            Most people can’t afford to think about this kind of shit, but rich folk can.

            Go kill a billionaire and make the world a better place for everyone.

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          Those billionaires didn’t portal into this world from another reality. Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

          I’d guess fewer than 1/3 of people are “good” (even after being educated). The rest are just dangerously intelligent animals.

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              Nobody’s perfect, but if I had a billion dollars my sole preoccupation would be to spend it as fast and effectively as possible to help people in need. That one criterion alone — a kind of minimum requirement — unfortunately makes me weird. However, I stand by the claim that anyone who would do otherwise is a bad person.

              To be clear, there is a wealth threshold (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) that few people in the first world achieve, so we can hardly blame them for not donating their meager savings. But a billion dollars is utterly beyond the pale. Hence my example.

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            Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

            Power corrupts. Our mistake is allowing power to be concentrated.

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        We let the few dominate and exploit the many. Our relationship with nature is refelective of our relationship with ourself.

        But the cultural focuson domination and exploitation is not biological. It’s not in our nature. The potential to dominate is. But so is the potential of cooperation and mutual aid.

        Let’s try to rethink our society and behaviour to nature and each other and aim for the latter. For all our sake.

        #GoogleBookchin