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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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This will definitely get me on a watchlist (programming.dev)

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How do y'all cope with this

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly what I was just thinking. This exact realization is a significant plot point in the book

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Hooray, more stuff to read!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I am re-reading this currently! Love KSR, but wow eerily apt with MftF.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The terrorists in that book are ethical and fair. In reality the types that would actually engage in that behavior would consider collateral damage as part of the “de growth”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The terrorists in the book are ethical and fair, because B is Mother. Without his black-ops hand guiding those kinds of things, they allude it would be a lot worse than drone swarms and pebble missiles. Transforming blind rageful terrorism into relatively guided eco-sabotage and brinksmanship that pushes through carboncoins and wealth caps.

I also noted this time around, that Franks talk with the Kali takes place before Mary and B chat about blackbooks stuff. So B was already doing the needful, for a long while.