Yeah for real. Not gonna dox myself but I work in Science™ in the US and we are getting absolutely dabbed on it's so pathetic. I guess it's for the best that Empire is forgetting how to do The Science.
looping @BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net in on this subthread because I think it aligns with her interests based on comments i've seen on the bear. maybe im confusing her with another doomposter...
I 100% guarantee theres some genius Chinese think talk talking about this right now and we will never fucking hear of it.
I will find this place and I will learn Chinese and I will get a job there and I will contribute to the realization of Sustainable Intergalactic Super Communism.
The crash might not even have the line go down, it much just stabilise and not increase anymore
That is basically what I'm expecting, maybe the line goes up slowly at best. The US markets have had "lost decades" before where equities saw no price appreciation. I suspect that will be the case, at least with much of the tech sector, as markets digest the larger discussion around credit risk
Right I know that life's increasing levels of complexity and organization are "counter" to entropy
But at the same time, the more complex the organism the greater the energy required to sustain it. The same can be said for the development of industrial civilization. So while I get what you're saying I don't think that really solves the problem at all...
Oh no the market hasn't been this low since 3 weeks ago!
Hexbears please do not entangle your emotional satisfaction with The Line. There is nothing to be gained besides blue balls waiting for the bubble to pop
It's been a nonstop craving for energy and resources ever since then.
That is actually a topic that interests me in terms of e.g. degrowth. I'd like reading suggestions from others on this, because if Life is hardwired to increase entropy, how do we manage global communism for any kind of "sustainability"? How can human civilization design itself to be within planetary boundaries? Maybe recognition of our "inability" to do so is all that's required. A kind of consciousness similar to class consciousness.
Edit to clarify my idea a bit: One's own class consciousness develops in part due to recognition that change which benefits your personal material interests is not possible alone but in a collective of your fellow class members. Maybe individually human beings are energy maximizers but can collectively develop "species consciousness" in order to align material interests (i.e. a human society which balances human liberation with ecosystem services, rights of the biosphere, etc)
As a USian I feel the same way. We aren't frothing at the mouth the same way Europeans are, but the Russophobia is so hardwired it makes you think there was a successful MKULTRA project in the papers the CIA burned.
Witnessing the Ukraine war and Palestinian genocide with the constant backdrop of climate collapse is a doom pill I am still trying to digest
Putin is a fuckboi but his history info dumps make me