I think geothermal power is even better. The technology needs to be matured for areas that don't have a lot of heat near the surface, but if you can dig deep enough, the earth has enough heat at any location to boil a working fluid and turn a turbine. Free energy for as long as the earth's core is hot. And zero waste as well.
Totally valid and I see what you mean. Antipsychiatry is the broad term often used to describe a lot of people critical of psychiatry, like on Wikipedia - despite many categorized under this term reject the label or never thought of themselves with that label. Everyone from L Ron Hubbard, Micheal Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I'm the one really nitpicking here because I really like Deleuze and Guattari and I wouldn't want people to get the idea that they're ableist because they're associated with the definitely ableist Scientologists on Wikipedia or the folks you mention suggesting diet and meditation to cure mood disorders. Apologies for grinding this axe with your comment haha. My issue is more with the word antipsychiatry and how others define who's a part of it than anything you've actually said. It is very unfortunate imo that Scientologists are in the same category as D&G, who don't at all claim that psychiatry in general does more harm than good (they would claim that Freudian psychoanalysis and some old institutional psychiatric treatments do however). I bring these guys up because their writings have helped me conceptualize and understand what happened to me during and after a drug induced psychosis, and ultimately get past it. Something that the psychiatrist I seen did absolutely nothing to help with besides prescribe anti-psychotics - great for physical brain disorders like schizophrenia, not so much for complex psychological problems that are not the result of a brain disorder.
They called themselves communists but their claims had no legitimacy. Scientology is very similar. It's anti-psychiatry, but offers no valid solutions, and their criticisms are suspect. There are many legitimate psychologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers associated with anti-psychiatry. Equating anti-psychiatry solely with the views of L Ron Hubbard and Scientology is precisely what they would want, and is just overly reductive and incorrect. Just read the Wikipedia page on it to get a better picture of the scope.
I think this is a brilliant observation! Materialist detournment maybe.
I had an idea maybe a year ago about creating an application where you can issue your own digital sovereign currency, like any nation with their own currency currently does. Be your own congress! Appropriate your own funds! Brrrr your own dang money printer!!
Maybe this is a hot take and I'm not sure who needs to hear this - not really directed at anyone in particular - but if you don't understand how the stock market works, how modern financialized Capitalism functions, it's a joke to call yourself a Communist. You want to defeat Capitalism and you don't even know the basics of how it actually works? Communism isn't a lifestyle brand. Actually learn something about how the current economy functions if you want to have any hope at all at fundamentally changing it.
Because it's potentially biased. That doesn't mean that everything that comes from Chinese media is 100% true and factual as a consequence, nor does it mean everything western media says about China is incorrect. Just because an official narrative may be suspect, does not automatically make any other narrative counter to it valid. You have to discern more carefully what you accept as true or plausible, and get out of this binary thought pattern where anything that postures itself as counter to the bad official story automatically is given more weight. Because if you are not careful you will find yourself becoming disconnected from reality. Don't automatically trust or believe any source outright.
By assuming that random conspiratorial new agey articles are correct in saying a coronavirus is a cia bioweapon? That isn't skepticism it's uncritical consumption of anything that postures itself as critical or counter
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Which text?