When I hear about Ron DeSantis's on-going feud with #Disney, I keep thinking about Pete Fraser's book, The Four Futures, a thought experiment in which he imagines how #ClimateChange and #Automation could play out to either increase our freedom and leisure or decrease them.
One outcome, which I think aligns with DeSantis's vision for the future, is essentially #fascism, based on an overreaching government that enforces so-called "traditional" values to scapegoat anyone who isn't a straight, white, cis, able-bodied, wealthy man while plundering the planet.
Another outcome is a sort of corporate authoritarianism in which our lives are essentially owned by our bosses and we have no real freedom or liberty but maybe we get a few fun consumer perks, if we're lucky, as we work ourselves to death in increasing precarity.
Regardless of who prevails, I think it should be obvious that no one, neither a governor nor a corporation, should have as much power as either #DeSantis or Disney have.
#disney #climatechange #automation #fascism #desantis #anotherworldispossible #fourfutures #solidarity