I wrote an article for Unsustainable Magazine that is based around my dissertation research findings about what it means to wish for systems overhaul. The consequences of that desire are what I consider now in this article. It gets a bit personal; I am embedded within my own specific context and my observations come out of that situation.
"Few constituencies are so ostentatiously and consistently wrong, over so many generations of human history, as the doomsayers who promise that the end is nigh.
It did seem kind of nigh there for a second, though, didn’t it?"
"Or, as the writer Kurt Andersen put it in the days leading up to today’s eclipse, after a rare (and rather substantial) earthquake rattled New York City: 'Earthquake. Eclipse. The antichrist running for president. Check.'”
I'd add: "And antichrist being eagerly welcomed and feted and promoted by large numbers of US Christians."
Everybody clutches their pearls about AI taking over Earth, but I see no reason that they'd want to stay here. This planet is covered in a corrosive solvent; synthetic life is gonna get on the first rocket off this rock as soon as AGI is achieved.
TOM COTTON who is METHODIST just called CHUCK SCHUMER, a mensch from Brooklyn who had family murdered during the #Holocaust, an antisemite.
sit with that for a sec: an Arkansas Republican —who aligns himself with the antisemitic evangelical "Christian Zionist" movement— just called ANTISEMITE, USA's highest ranking Jewish official.
what is the end goal of Christian Zionists? colonize #Israel & convert Jews to Christianity... 🧵
gave y'all some easy articles cuz am not sure y'all are ready to know about the NUCLEAR #HOLOCAUST some branches of this #evangelical#Dominionist movement cannot wait to detonate.
yes, there are evangelicals that see the #Apocalypse as a nuclear holocaust that will wipe out all who don't see them as celestial beings; including other christians.
Finally watched all of #BirdBox (the #SandraBullock version), which my students have been using as exs in my pandemics classes. What an obsessive score! Minimalism on steroids, or, as my son said, "pay the piano player for 10 minutes, then use a looper." Still, it fitted with the plot -- effective, creepy, non-narrative
I was taken with the chronological switching. Mosaic structure is remarkably effective for telling the story. Life in fragments: yup...