Red Oak on Nostr: i don't really have time to rant today, but one's cooking about the presumption that ...
i don't really have time to rant today, but one's cooking about the presumption that #degrowth means some kind of miserable sepia-toned dustbowl future for Reasonable Western Citizens or whatever.
for now i'll just wonder aloud, what structures and institutions would benefit from this total conflation of growth with comfort and happiness? Would a system that profits from influencing all our beliefs and behaviors *dare* to position itself in our imaginations as the Only Good Thing?
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