Identity politics,

We’re now experiencing capitalism in its terminal, scorched earth phase.

“They talk to me about progress, diseases cured, highways built, improved standards of living. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.”

the internet complex was promoted as inherently democratic, decentralizing, and anti-hierarchical.

Unfortunately, many on the left in the early 1970s regarded any attention to environmental issues as a diversion from the anti-war and liberation struggles of the time.

to ensure that a potentially powerful majority cannot recognize itself, being split into separate and competing factions from which a handful of representatives are allowed conspicuous entry into the meritocracy.

to affirm that the world is animate and that all livings things are interconnected and interdependent. An animate world, as the etymology of the word suggests, is one that breathes, that unites everything in it with the rhythmic pulse of a world-soul.

“annihilating nihilism,” in which the disintegration of long-standing forms of social solidarity are inseparable from epidemics of depression, addiction, and suicide.

The priority is to derail the possibility of a potentially rebellious youth, and, in order to conceal their jobless, worldless future, there is the dismal fiction of a generation aspiring to become “influencers,” founders of start-ups, or otherwise aligned with spiritless entrepreneurial values.