Although I appreciate all these big words, I am trying to point out that collapse could occur much sooner than we all realize.
I am not actually suggesting “oil boiling,” I was using the idea of a hot statue of moloch filled with oil executives as a allagorical simile and metaphor for people being upset.
My point is, civility may become more blatantly meaningless when the biosphere becomes more visibly in a state of complete collapse, and then all the buddhism and jesusism and sitting under a tree or behind desks and calmly talking about words isn’t going to undo a collapsed biosphere.
I get how jesusism and civil complaints and erudishun have a place in society, but many people may care about those things less when the biosphere reaches a tipping point and the collapse becomes undeniable.
You are saying the normal liberal socially acceptable thing, let’s have civil respectable accountability and change the future. But in the future, with a biosphere collapse, it may not be the normal thing to say. I’m sure when the new tropes come, you’ll be ready.
(Which is exactly when someone… not me… rolls in a giant metal hollow statue of moloch, conveniently on a pair of wheels… ready as a symbol… of accepting the future)