I stopped listening regularly over a year ago. For example, read between the lines of his interview with Jeremy Grantham and tell me where Nate's true allegiances lie.
Hell, even in the episode that was linked here he and the guest bend over backwards accepting the fact that we have to do military build-up, like it's a foregone conclusion. Anybody serious about the future of humanity would immediately slap that shit down.
As an aside, Capitalists can adopt permaculture aesthetics because it's not a threat to them.
In summary: it's a fight against entropy, and we are losing horribly.
Thanks for the effort post. It's important that more Hexbears take a world-systems perspective - capitalism is our primary enemy at present, but the future isn't as easy as slapping a few solar panels on something and calling it solarpunk. Global industrial civilization's days are numbered, but that's a scary topic to a lot of people and causes a lot of cognitive dissonance.
Stick together and prepare for war. Because the only way to deal with bullies is to push back.
As an aside, I've had interactions with multiple libs regarding this Greenland hubbub and they ALL use that framing.
How can these people have such an infantile view of world politics? It's so fucking aggravating. Real life is not like a school playground spat you imbeciles!
University of Toronto political scientist Aisha Ahmad said Canada needs to drastically boost its homeland defence capabilities, regardless of the potential U.S. threat to the border.
“The better Canada can embrace this approach to homeland defence, the less likely all of these horrible scenarios that nobody wants will ever come to pass,” she said.
This is just advocating grift for the military industrial complex. Canada would have to develop a domestic industrial capacity like Russia's to have any hope of a deterrent, if that even.
I should have studied political science... it's the best Graeberian bullshit job, where you're paid to pull nonsense out of your mind palace.
That was excellent xiaohongshu, I am not the person you replied to but want to sincerely thank you for taking the time. Thank you for linking the translation of Wang Ou's migrant worker lecture as well.
I did not realize the extent to which housing has become this ball and chain for multiple generations of a family, and it helps to contextualize the difficulty in raising domestic consumption when people are essentially forced into debt peonage for the "gamble" of a good education in order to maximize outcomes for their children.
Securitization and its consequences...