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ontological intifada's avatar

have you read the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer?

seems like you might dig it.

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

No but I have heard of the writer and the book. I should. Thanks!

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Steven Work's avatar

Who has been stealing much of my wages all my working life?

I've tracked down the information to argue that since 1979 Gov and corp have been silencing and impoverishing regular people. If Synagogue of Satan Zionist and other minions had left well enough alone, you would not believe how much better we all and our nation would have been. Listen for taste, read for truth.

AI generated audio overview of article;

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/9fc1b713-4c44-49bd-9c29-04fc3fe09744/audio

"Multiverse Journal - Index Number 2223:, 14th July 2025, State's Organized Planned Disempowerment of the American Citizen"

https://stevenwork.substack.com/p/multiverse-journal-index-number-2223

Feedback welcomed.

God Bless., Steve

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Crapp's avatar

Excellent. All narratives and solutions, despite their often noble intentions at the start just get picked up by the system and become cover stories that simply enable the continued upward flow of wealth by whatever means. Love how you consistently keep the essential aspect of nature front and centre in so many of your arguments.

Keep it coming.

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

Many thanks (heart) for reading!

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

Looks like the work of the moneyed psychopaths in control on Our planet - by virtue of money. And I mean that tool in whatever form We're using to account for the energy We're adding into a system, whether goods/services or anything representational.

I think it's past time to get rid of that tool and see Humanity in a...

Stigmergic Emergence of Civilization (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/stigmergic-emergence-of-civilization

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

hi friend, indeed what i address as capitalism or cannibal capitalism is what you address as the "work of the moneyed psychopaths". Without Nature what are we? Nothing. Beyond such scarcity and hopelessness, perhaps in the future, we can resolve all such energy needs and crisis one day.

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John Quiggin's avatar

I don't buy the rural energy injustice story, at least as I've seen it in Australia. People in rural Australia were very happy to be connected to the electricity grid, and didn't worry at all about pollution from the coal-fired power stations that generated it, mostly in or near major industrial centres. Now that the electrons are flowing the other way, they complain, even though lots of the supposed harms (eg "infranoise" from wind turbines) are made-up

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Fuck off 😤

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

You are lucky and exceptional, for whatever energy use and abuse that you can sustain as of now. To settler the matter from a global context - Australia is an ugly settler colonial project whereby the original inhabitants were long depopulated and kicked out. Then whatever type of energy and luxury you or kin may enjoy. We must also remember that Australia is still selling massive amounts of coal to the entire world. Ciao!

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John Quiggin's avatar

And just about everywhere in the world is an ugly settler colonial project where the original inhabitants were kicked out or wiped out long ago. Many times over in the case of Europe

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

No, no, no sir. Do not mince words. We speak english and we know what each term is symbolic of. What you are doing is mixing colonization and settler colonialism into one box. The former is a process where a species can acquire a "trophic" status within the Web Of Life, while the latter, "Settler Colonialism" always happens via outright violence, either wiping off (genocide) or driving out (expulsion) the original humans of a said place. Is how Australia came to be.

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John Quiggin's avatar

Unsurprisingly the people opposing energy transition are the strongest backers of coal exports and the strongest opponents of any kind of reconciliation with indigenous Australians.

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

But there is no energy transition. Just by changing the machines, the process of generating energy, you have achieved J*CKSH&T. What you have achieved, yet again, is technological innovation and new techniques. The destruction of Nature and the CO2 emissions are all rising. Read, Check, Consult the figures. Worse, you cannot even fix, nor do you have any control over all such modern green colored energy. Stop fooling yourself for once. And learn something real from the remaining Indigenous inside your ugly settler colonial project (Australia).

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Peace2051's avatar

I don't think these land grabs are independent. It's the kind of behavior one would expect from entities that are fully aware that we are in the beginnings of the Ecological Overshoot Unraveling. Staking their claim early assumes they will be able to hold the land from the inevitable "squatters" that see these lands a the commons. And squatters have and will have rights they will defend.

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

Enough of this Ecological Overshoot Religion - Why? because it is a great 1st world abstraction and objective truth. What ecological overshoot discounts? is the overshoot of violence, overshoot of wealth inequality, overshoot of capitalism, overshoot of imperialism and all it's tyranny on the working class, on women, on animals and on the planet. This ecological overshoot is following the same bogus arithmetic of capitalism. To hell with such "staking claims" in the name of the entire earth. You blame squatters ?? Instead look what BLACKROCK Investments is doing allover the world. Check how neoliberalism is destroying your own country and it's remaining wilderness. And please drop this Overshoot religion - it has been properly debunked by various experts of various backgrounds.

Is vital to remember that the “trophic level” of a ruling species and the position it occupies inside the “Web Of Life” (Jason Moore) remains as is — the organism that must eat other organisms, as well as wage a continuous war on Nature, may in turn, eventually consume themselves via what is increasingly visible as “Cannibal Capitalism” (Nancy Fraser).

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Peace2051's avatar

An afterthought from my newsletter feeds today which is pertinent to this topic: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/from-joseph-smith-to-mike-lee-two-centuries-of-mormon-land-grabbers/

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

instead vilifying a bunch of Mormons for whatever land they managed to grab - please check what BLACKROCK investments is up to across the world.

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Peace2051's avatar

What is your call to action, Counter?

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

I don't have any call to action, as in world management plan. Since we cannot give up modernity and our evolution stopped a while ago, we can either carry on as is or reject every notion and construct of modernity. That does not equate to a mantra nor formula, but a material dialectic. This call to action can only equate to a revolution and violent one! Ready?

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Peace2051's avatar

I clicked like but I'm not ready. This reminds me of the scene from Ingmar Bergman's iconic movie The Seventh Seal. Death asks the Knight if he is ready. He replies, "My body is ready but I am not."

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

If you consider yourself to be “Knight” you must honor what says the decree. The rest is made of great abstractions and high hope of a better future (howling cackles in the background, by Death).

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