Against_Decay
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Against Decay
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We live in a decaying system, which in turn produces ideologies of decay to justify its existence.
No matter what cultural signifiers they get packaged with, these ideologies come down to the same material result: a future in which for the average person there is less of everything. To paraphrase Mark Fisher, we find it easier to imagine the decline of civilization than to imagine a civilization worth living in.
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Those of us who still believe that humanity can thrive, that there is a path forward other than wilful or accidental decay, are out of sync with the system. No matter how we phrase our arguments, they will be perceived in terms of whatever cultural signifiers the listener opposes.
It's a deeply frustrating, depressing, even infuriating situation. But what can we do except patiently explain, and hope conditions change? In other words, what can we do except have faith?
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| Athena: This was written only a few months before the discovery of the virus. There was no time for conditions to change. |