Population implosion collapse chaos, pronatalist billionaire discourse edition
“There are some alarming statistics in the world today, and I take it as my job in these situations to urge the audience to keep their eye on the ball of real world problems — inequality, climate change, reproductive rights, war — and not blow our minds on world population in the year 2300.”
Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.
Y'know, there's an easy way we can fight back against the enshittification of everything, both online and off. I never realized it, but i've been fighting back all my life.
Never click an ad and consciously avoid spending any money on a company that successfully managed to fling its advertizing feces in your face.
If ads didn't work, the entire capitalist structure of the internet would collapse. Do your part. Make them not work on you.
Yes, our entire world is directed toward promoting #consumption and #profit, with the aim of obtaining, maximising, and retaining #PersonalWealth (mostly for #Billionaires and the #SuperRich). It's that that is causing all of our problems, I think?
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares.
Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life by Seamus Bruner
In this book, investigative journalist Seamus Bruner—who led the teams whose findings sparked multiple FBI investigations and congressional probes into the Clintons and the Bidens—exposes the billionaires who control the levers of power that dominate every aspect of your life.