I'm reading #TheDawnOfEverything, delighted to hear these scholars lucidly arguing for something really important to me.

The arrogance of #MythOfProgress – which skews how we regard our ancestors, and shrinks our ability to imagine alternative futures – has frustrated me for a very long time. At last: DEBUNKED!

Graeber in particular happens to be my favorite scholarly curmudgeon at this point. So very clearheaded, so very cantankerous. #RestInPeace Graeber.

#anthropology #history #modernism

"...It is ego’s shortsightedness and tendency to consume resources from its environment (not just the physical but of our spiritual, mental, and social domains as well) that has placed us in this position. While ego advanced us technologically, it did so at a great cost—one that cannot continue to be afforded...

Humanity has furthered itself through cruelty—death, destruction, oppression, and all manner of atrocity—exceeding the primality of any beast of the forest or field...

We have all we need to rise above all of our dysfunction. We must engage these opportunities not just because of what is possible but because of what is certain if we don’t. For we stand upon our existential precipice, a position not inherited by chance but by our own negligence..."

We must not allow greed, predatory capitalism, white nationalism, christo-fascism, or any other pathological ideology to have control of anything.

#Ego #sustainability #MythOfProgress #technology

https://humanitysshift.substack.com/p/a-unified-vision-for-humanity

We do not need 5G – we need people who care about us https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2020/12/24/we-do-not-need-5g-we-need-people-who-care-about-us/ #bio-climaticarchitecture #programmedobsolescence #sustainabletechnology #self-drivingvehicles #sustainablemobility #AntonioAretxabala #controloverpeople #ecosystemcollapse #agriculturalsoil #authoritarianism #energytransition #MasanobuFukuoka #renewableenergy #DonellaMeadows #JorgeRiechmann #mythofprogress #nanotechnology #publicservices #ICT

5G vs. 7G https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2020/11/10/5g-vs-7g/ #seventhgeneration #changeofvalues #mythofprogress #technofanatism #culturalmyths #technology #Highlight #Modernity #posterity #Reflexio #ethics #5G