Why do you think that? Sure, maybe you could say there were some failed non-capitalist experiments, but 'only way' seems a bit definitive. Also, is fr...
I dunno, maybe we are on a somewhat different wavelength, I wasn't really referring to any kind of monasticism at all. The point or problem, as I see ...
Maybe its the other way around? Maybe continual erosion of all that was communal/shared in favour of the individual has left a void, to which all of t...
It is the issue of our time, but what should be done about it is not that clear. 'Act accordingly' sounds a bit like the solution automatically follow...
What about continued damage done by industrialization going forward? There seems to be a tension in socialism, where on the one hand industrialization...
I did think of socialism as a 'progressive' ideology, as the progressive abolition of social and material limits for everybody. And construed as such ...
The human race is not alone, but part of a larger whole. 'Being part of' means it is nothing without it, cannot exist without it. Constant improvement...
Nice rant, seriously I can appreciate some real passion shining through. It made me think of this songs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA ...
Part of the problem, and reason, we don't already have that is because what 'we' decide is partly determined by those that are in power. At no point i...
If we are talking about societal structures, it's about the long term, right? Maybe the founders of google had all the best intentions, and with those...
I never said I fully believe the basic assumption either (check my last line), but I do think maybe there's something to it. 'That something' is alway...
I think I agree. Question is maybe how does one organise those into a society, practically? We moderns and atheists usually don't have much time for t...
All systems tend to oligarchy.... combined with.... noblesse oblige. Now we nominally have democracy, but in practice power seems to be in the hands o...
This is interesting in that it kindof lays bare some of the assumptions that are being made in enlightenment/liberalist ideology. Maybe it is the obvi...
The main reason I'd say is that the government isn't embarking on big societal projects like it used to, the socio-political climate has changed ;-). ...
I don't think the saying really applies here because there's no invention that can deal with that necessity short term. It's not like there is a lot o...
I did check it, a lot... renewables just will not work on the scale needed. And even if they would, you'd need huge swats of land for it which would b...
I don't think it can be done. Energy-transition is a process that would take decades even if there was a consensus on the way to go... you can only sp...
Well I'd say the esoteric is whatever Western tradition ignores.... and Western tradition is more than Western philosophy I suppose, we did have a cou...
Ok, there's two meanings put forward of the word/concept magic, first order and second order. The first order meaning revolves around ingroup-outgroup...
My guess is it doesn't, not in any real way anyway. I've listened to the first 3 episodes, and one of the ideas put forward of the real history of the...
My hope is people too in some way, but not in a typical direct political way, like people voting for reforms to the cosmopolitan global capitalist sys...
Okay to attempt to give a more constructive response to your question ;-). The whole system is the problem right? You can't change the whole system is...
I don't really expect an answer to this... seriously, what do we expect people to say? That almost everything we do is a ruse, propped up by inequalit...
I think the only "solution" is to let the whole system collapse, probably better sooner than later... and see what can grow after that. The "system" i...
The project of metaphysics is bullshit... seriously ask yourself why would you believe in something that has no apparent reason, nor any sense evidenc...
I think I do get what you are trying to say, oil prices will rise, renewables will get cheaper... and so in the end the idea is that market will sort ...
I'm going to start here, because I don't know what it is that people just keep believing perpetual growth is even possible in theory. It isn't, resour...
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2214629621003327-gr1.jpg Since economic growth tracks energy consumption, it doesn't look to hot for the...
There is no juxtaposition SSU. Without further use of fossil fuels there can be no growth economy as we know it. With further use of fossil fuels ther...
I'm not sure I completely understand the question. Are you asking for what the recovery process from the worldview would be, as if the worldview is th...
It's no proof, right... but it is a sort of explanation for why people are holding those beliefs if you already assume they don't hold those beliefs b...
I don't think he is making an argument there at all, he seem to be just stating what he thinks is the case, and why we tend to believe in essences... ...
"The world as we know it" is basically western capitalist growth model exported to the rest of the world. That kind of model only became possible beca...
From a societal and psychological/epistemic point of view, the problem is we have been living exclusively on the sharp end of the hockey-stick. Our ex...
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/gdp-world.jpg https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-primary-energy.svg GDP tra...
No, that would be pretty weird :-). Now and then I look back at some of my older posts, and I've been thinking a lot about this particular topic latel...
The way the question is formulated assumes that perpetual growth is a possibility. Since economic growth is intimately linked with energy-usage, in th...
Usually the solution to this type nihilism involves seeing yourself more as part of a greater whole, that consequentially has a function or purpose in...
No I think you're right... more generally, I think social media has made most politicians scared of doing anything that might cause something like a s...
Value is a more abstract notion of something we want essentially. 'Something "we" want' already implies a living thing and a duration of time. For the...
I agree, chances don't look that hot...I do think maybe the time is ripe for some kind of politician or political movement that can connect the dots i...
Yeah physics doesn't care about any of that... and eventhough a case could no doubt be made for it, I don't think finger-pointing will get us closer t...
I'd expect something somewhat concrete to come out of it because at this point it would seem very hard to defend not doing anything concrete, but who ...
Yes if you would look at it historically and from a fairness point of view we would need to almost stop all use of fossil fuels right now to give them...
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