“The economy is actually a subset of the earth's ecology—obviously—but we haven't been acting that way. So we find ourselves in a situation where civilization needs a reboot, needs a ground-up reimagination—and literally ground up. It needs to be re-imagined in the context of a living earth…”
—Matthew Segall
#civilization #economy #ecology
“Those of us who are trying to wrest from the ruins of industrial civilization the possibility of an ecological civilization have to reckon with the fact that every civilization to have existed up until this point has been imperial and exploitative of people through various forms of slavery and economic oppression, and through its extractive relationship to the natural world…”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/between-earth-and-empire-cosmopolitical
#civilization #economy #exploitation
- and after four decades Men
still haven't stopped trying to roll women's voting rights back...
https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/114624194191340110 #civilization #equality #resist
#wwii fades into history
people forget
some rising #fascism?
eh, kick the can down the road
now there is a mountain of cans before us
our weakness
our foolishness
our failure
all fascism requires is #ignorance and #bigotry, never in short supply, to be yoked for power
it's merely a forever maintenance function of #civilization to take them out
i don't mean literal murder
but there is a literal, mortal struggle coming if we continue to delude ourselves
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
#Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Civilization
#Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
@JaniceOCG Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.
This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.
Thanks Reagan.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
“𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚌𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚎𝚝𝚜.”
― 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘦𝘬𝘢𝘴
“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙤 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚”: 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙚𝙣’𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙆𝙞𝙙𝙨
"Birth rates are falling across the world, and no one seems to know why. But maybe the answer is simpler than we think: people don’t trust the future anymore. This essay introduces the idea of temporal inflation — a hidden force that could be reshaping civilization itself."
Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.
This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.
Thanks Reagan.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
A lesson of World War II should be that a civilized society must be one that defends diversity of belief; if so, we seem to be becoming less civilized. Combining intolerance with the power of the weaponry born of contemporary technology is producing a lethal brew. We must learn the lessons of history lest we put our whole civilization at risk.
-- David Baltimore (American Scientist (Jan 2007))
#Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBaltimore #Civilization #Intolerance
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
He has never played Sid Meier's Civilization, and it shows.
Did he find out that most of us are only getting through his ghastly regime by binge watching comfort series and movies?
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
Will Rogers
The unravelling of civilization: Egocentric ideals and world politics https://www.byteseu.com/?p=959489 #Civilization #DonaldTrump #history #Politics
https://www.europesays.com/?p=2029941 The unravelling of civilization: Egocentric ideals and world politics #america #civilization #DonaldTrump #geopolitics #history #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPolitics #US #USPolitics #USA #UsaPolitics
#Civilization players: if you played both #Civ6 and#Civ7, which one would you keep if you could only keep one?
(Played Civ6 extensively, trying to wonder if Civ7 is worth buying yet)
Civilization VII 1.2 is out with multiplayer teams, the one more turn game mode, new resources and lots more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/civilization-vii-1-2-is-out-with-multiplayer-teams-the-one-more-turn-game-mode-new-resources-and-lots-more/
