Just Politics

[12yearplan]

because the earth is overheating

 “Oh, my God!” ... “My attempt to escape the web of fate was the web of fate.” 

      If this is a reckoning for our species, we need an intellectual guide – someone to tell us just how panicked we should be, and how our recognition that we are transforming the planet will change us in turn.

       It is through hyperobjects that we initially confront the Anthropocene,.. 
        but their scale and the fact that we are trapped inside them means that we can never fully know them. Because of such phenomena, we are living in a time of quite literally unthinkable change.

 If we give up the delusion of controlling everything around us, we might refocus ourselves on the pleasure we take in other beings and life itself. Enjoyment, Morton believes, might be the thing that turns us on to a new kind of politics. “You think ecologically tuned life means being all efficient and pure,” the tweet pinned to the top of his Twitter timeline reads. “Wrong. It means you can have a disco in every room of your house.”

   

     

 Morton says we can tidy up our ideas all we want, but the world is going to remain a fundamentally messy place that will always resist our philosophical decluttering. What we need to do instead is get comfortable with this weirdness.

 There’s nothing like the prospect of an authoritarian strongman to make intellectuals, hippies, and, above all, hippie intellectuals appear hopelessly ineffectual...talk of deep time or of effacing the false ontological divide between humanity and nature risks seeming rather fatuous.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-reckoning-for-our-species-the-philosopher-prophet-of-the-anthropocene?utm_source=pocket-newtab