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Tory M.'s avatar

“Stuck in steerage on a sinking liner, the SS Neoliberal, hull crushed open by the iceberg of economic reality, the captains of industry drunk at the helm still convinced of their omnipotence, and no lifeboats on board because the designers said it was unsinkable, immutable: a self-evident truth.”

Goddamn dude, this is so good. Brilliant essay!

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My favourite essay of yours to date Alan. I nodded along aggressively to this in particular: "Politics has become an expression of faith, yet irrespective of political faiths, everyone fills the void with immaterial alternate realities. And nothing is held sacred."

Many of us--the non-psychopathic ones, at least--seem to live in a delusion of disenchanted Machine-ism characterised by naive views of scientism as a source of cosmic redemption, deranged views of human nature, and a blind disregard of our outrageously precarious existential risk landscape. These views are ushering in bizarre transhumanist projects among other anti-human scientistic disasters.

Where is our widespread acceptance of infinite mystery and the subsequent recognition of truth seeking as an inherently social endeavour? Where is our explicit acknowledgement of love's primacy and the subsequent fundamentality of inter-relation between persons and nature? These questions, while somewhat trite and fully cliche, seem paramount nonetheless.

Nice work man.

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