Merke ich mir mal: #JamesCScott, #DieMühlenDerZivilisation, Eine Tiefengeschichte der frühesten Staaten, (2017)

(#RutgerBregman, #ImGrundeGut, Seite 135)

RT @tmccormick
“In Praise of Floods: The Study of Rivers and Civilization," #JamesCScott's 2020 #AlbertHirschman Prize lecture (43:20-): "a 'flood' is just a river breathing deeply", bounding is trespass, stabilization is often violence. Introduced by @alondra (38:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzUP9Mjml6Y

life taught me that colonialism is bad. #JamesCScott taught me that all states and 'governments' are bad actually :3

states trap people in their orbit by alienating them from land and each other. if we want to escape from / diminish civilisation then we have to learn about the land we live in, what grows, what we can forage, how to leave enough for animals and for it to regrow.

'aid' and 'development' are tools to isolate people from their community, their past, and their land. they solve problems created by the same countries that offer these as charity. and in so doing create poverty, because people who can live off the undisturbed forest, draw water from clean rivers, and make things for their community have no need for capitalist economy, cannot be 'poor' because they have everything they need.

- stuff I've been thinking about, largely based on the #UpstreamPodcast (esp the episodes with #VandanaShiva and #SophieChao on #gastrocolonialism) and reading #JamesCScott

(this is not to idealise societies that exist outside of 'civilisations'. they can hold major injustice and suffering.)

#anarchy tag? idk

states trap people in their orbit by alienating them from land and each other. if we want to escape from / diminish civilisation then we have to learn about the land we live in, what grows, what we can forage, how to leave enough for animals and for it to regrow.

'aid' and 'development' are tools to do this. they solve problems created by the same countries that offer these as charity. and in so doing create poverty, because people who can live off the undisturbed forest, draw water from clean rivers, and make things for their community have no need for capitalist economy, cannot be 'poor' because they have everything they need.

- stuff I've been thinking about, largely based on the #UpstreamPodcast (esp the episode with #VandanaShiva) and reading #JamesCScott

(this is not to idealise societies that exist outside of 'civilisations'. they can hold major injustice and suffering.)

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James C. Scott:
Die Mühlen der Zivilisation
Eine Tiefengeschichte der frühesten Staaten

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