I made this comment in another thread but I want more of your eyeballs on it, maybe somebody has something useful to say.
I have some serious anxiety about the fact that modern civilization is all of us in a bus driving towards a cliff, with the driver’s foot firmly on the accelerator pedal. Therapy is available to me, but what the fuck are they gonna say? Tune out?
http://readdesert.org
EDIT: I finished it, and I guess desert's purpose may be to take the most pessimistic view of humanity possible and then say there's space for anarchism. I think it's particularly ineffective on MLs. But even from the perspective of an anarchist – it's fundamentally flawed, it relies on the same premises that capitalist and imperialist realism does: that people are greedy, desire religious authoritarianism and fascinatingly, love destruction. Even the cynical readings of the consensus on the biological nature of people cannot lead you to the conclusions in this. I'm surprised by the wholesale rejection of the work done by Kropotkin et al in this. The view of humanity in this is dominated by fascist views of people. Particularly frustrating is it's relies entirely on a scientist largely enamored with selling doom as a 'truth teller'. Mathusianism abounds.
Original comment: I was enjoying the rejection of accelerationism.
I'm halfway through this so it's a good downer rn... But this section on climate change is particularly excellent.
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