Alexandra Green
@axaeon
Alexandra Green
@axaeon
Dr. Clay Routledge, a social psychologist who has written extensively on nostalgia, explained that nostalgic memory provides “comfort, guidance and inspiration.” Though it looks backward, it is, he notes, “a future-oriented endeavor.” In other words, nostalgia isn’t simply about escaping into the past—it’s about using the past as a compass for
... See moreThe thing about growth is that it sounds so good. It’s a powerful metaphor that’s rooted deeply in our understanding of natural processes: children grow, crops grow … and so too the economy should grow. But this framing plays on a false analogy. The natural process of growth is always finite. We want our children to grow, but not to the point of
... See moreA more holistic way of thinking about growth is to recognise that it is broadly equivalent to the rate at which our economy is metabolising the living world.
Proponents of degrowth argue that economic growth is predicated on the continuous extraction of natural resources, and so infinite growth in a world in which resources are finite is, by definition, impossible. In fact, the pursuit of infinite growth is what led civilization down the path of climate change, ecological destruction, biodiversity loss,
... See moreSoil Punk and
Mysteries and
https://www.academia.edu/1534399/Demeters_Torch_and_The_Mysteries_of_Eleusis
Death as Regeneration, The Harvest Rites, Blood to Seed, Wine Offerings, Mass, The Decent, Eleusinian Mysteries, Crops
Weavers Quest and
Small World Theory and the Math Behind 6 degrees of seperation