Though I really liked your appearance on Rachel Donald's Planet: Critical podcast, I do think both of you go for the proverbial hopium windup at the end.
There just is not a whiff of sociology in disregarding the totalitarian enormity of the corporate supersystem. Hopium nods to placate the young'uns and the fervantists is not what public intellectualism should be.
There are no conditions for any material change in the extraction-production global economy. Mining; militarism; ultra-extreme economic inequality; valueless financialization; corporatist academia - these have all been forming for decade after decade, and have absorbed every generation's desire for a better world and killed it off.
I see a lot of this merger in the pronatalist movement. Look at the speakers at the two NatalCons, it’s the “techies and trads” - https://politicalresearch.org/2025/03/27/trad-values-meets-tech
Reminds me of this article comparing Silicon Valley's AI ambitions to Christianity
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23779413/silicon-valleys-ai-religion-transhumanism-longtermism-ea
Not surprised. After reading Erik Davis' coverage of the new Christianity in Silicon Valley, I assumed that was coming.
Well sure, no doubt on that argument.
Though I really liked your appearance on Rachel Donald's Planet: Critical podcast, I do think both of you go for the proverbial hopium windup at the end.
There just is not a whiff of sociology in disregarding the totalitarian enormity of the corporate supersystem. Hopium nods to placate the young'uns and the fervantists is not what public intellectualism should be.
There are no conditions for any material change in the extraction-production global economy. Mining; militarism; ultra-extreme economic inequality; valueless financialization; corporatist academia - these have all been forming for decade after decade, and have absorbed every generation's desire for a better world and killed it off.