The pool filled in with cement, an empty badminton court, halls and balconies strewn with refuse, surrounded by strip malls in what is essentially a glorified truck stop called Rock Springs.
The trees have all been cut down for reasons I cannot know, the entire place exuded a feeling of a liminal space as though I was in the back rooms of this forsaken country.
And within it all, a kernel of hope, the empire is on its last legs and now is a time we must seize, we must act now.
This is the time of monsters, the all consuming maw of corporate landlords, price gouging on all basic necessities, the ongoing genocide of the few remaining indigenous people that stand up to this ravenous beast and say as one "NO! We will not go quietly into the night!"
It is far past time to pick a side.
Which side are you on?
I care not what political ideology you subscribe to, be it anarchist or Maoist or Marxist Leninist.
We have far more in common than we do not and there are years and years to come before any of that could possibly matter to any of our material conditions.
Broke: Materialism
Woke: We are clearly trapped in the maw of an confluence of inhuman forces beyond comprehension and madness is the only escape
Woke: We are clearly trapped in the maw of an confluence of inhuman forces beyond comprehension and madness is the only escape
Ascended: We are trapped inside an alive organism called the ecomony that feasts on the working classes lifeforce and the only escape is to punch out of the whales chest and leave the carcass of the upper class on the ocean bed
https://filosofiadeldebito.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1988_Bataille-The-Accursed-Share_Essay-on-General-Economy.pdf
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We're in a road movie to
BerlinCruelty Squad, can't drive out the way we drove in
https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/
I was so thrilled to find out that other people had come to a similar conclusion. It made me feel so much less insane.
The lights are on, but it's no one's homeThis is all extremely my jam
Is this from the post? Anyway, very cool twist on the usual phrase, I like it.
It's what I imagine could be a caption or alternate title. Very Inhabit-esque.
People chop down trees for insurance reasons, also it’s cheaper to kill them then to make sure their roots don’t go into the pipes. As an area gets poorer, everything gets uglier.
Also they love cutting them down when they give striking workers or homeless people shade and comfort
“Future”? That literally looks and sounds like half of my hometown lmfao
Yeah but this is what is going to happen to all of it. Urban desertification.
Path A: Cutting down all the hazardous trees, turning the landscape into a monoculture of grass or soy with scattered slivers of woods
Path B: Condensing built-up areas so they are more accessible and walkable, putting limits on urban and economic growth at the source, allowing landscapes of micro-cities as islands in the sea of forest and prairie and brush
Another note: it's almost impressive how capitalism has managed to make this once beautiful land so ugly in many parts.
In fairness to Rock Springs... Dude, why did you pick the absolute cheapest motel on Expedia?
For like $10 more... (sigh) 😔
Where I live they keep cutting down forrests to put up generic looking 'mixed use' luxury condos. These usually have a first floor that has restaurants and 'boutique' stores (usually just someone scalping stuff from Etsy) that constantly fail.
