The whole trans-humanism thing (perhaps if we just called it Trans they would hate it so much they would find some other unlikely future to chase) and Long Termism speaks of people who hate their bodies and emotions and anything that would mark them as human. It has all the hallmarks of people trying to skip over the trauma of their lives to a place where none of that can touch them. On top of that they can rewrite the past and become the most powerful instead of the least, the most rich instead of the relative poor.
I don't know the story of Emile's break with the Long Termism group but his take on the situation today is quite compelling. Also, his brief description of the Alexander Thomas book made such sense of the mechanics of the evolution of Capitalism.
The somewhat dark conclusion, barring a natural catastrophe that does the job for us, is that we must reject and overthrow the followers of this vision to avoid being dragged into the supply side of the equation. Oh Joy!
Anytime the topic of aligning with human values comes up is an opportunity to talk about the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter.
“So the thesis of this book stands or falls with the correctness of the decline rate that Brown gives us. Therefore I have calculated with several different parameters as regards the decline rate, and all point in the same direction. The difference between them is a few years at most. Therefore I assume that my thesis is solid, which is that the end of global net oil exports in 2030-2032 (Brown’s scenario) is a best-case scenario.
Collapse can, I think, begin in earnest already in 2026, only because of too little diesel exports. Observe that oil exports vanish successively, more and more, not all at once.” ?
The whole trans-humanism thing (perhaps if we just called it Trans they would hate it so much they would find some other unlikely future to chase) and Long Termism speaks of people who hate their bodies and emotions and anything that would mark them as human. It has all the hallmarks of people trying to skip over the trauma of their lives to a place where none of that can touch them. On top of that they can rewrite the past and become the most powerful instead of the least, the most rich instead of the relative poor.
I don't know the story of Emile's break with the Long Termism group but his take on the situation today is quite compelling. Also, his brief description of the Alexander Thomas book made such sense of the mechanics of the evolution of Capitalism.
The somewhat dark conclusion, barring a natural catastrophe that does the job for us, is that we must reject and overthrow the followers of this vision to avoid being dragged into the supply side of the equation. Oh Joy!
Anytime the topic of aligning with human values comes up is an opportunity to talk about the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter.
“So the thesis of this book stands or falls with the correctness of the decline rate that Brown gives us. Therefore I have calculated with several different parameters as regards the decline rate, and all point in the same direction. The difference between them is a few years at most. Therefore I assume that my thesis is solid, which is that the end of global net oil exports in 2030-2032 (Brown’s scenario) is a best-case scenario.
Collapse can, I think, begin in earnest already in 2026, only because of too little diesel exports. Observe that oil exports vanish successively, more and more, not all at once.” ?
https://un-denial.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lars-larsen-the-end-of-global-net-oil-exports-13th-edition-2024.pdf
https://un-denial.com/2024/07/29/book-review-the-end-of-global-net-oil-exports-by-lars-larsen-2024/