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look, if you thought you could get away with just individual grief, you might have to rethink that, because collective grief is coming for you, and a people and society you love https://t.co/Mt5CpdtMqi
with this kind of technology anyone with slightest lack of mothering will feel the dark pull of this stone an increasing swath of society are going to have intimacy primarily rooted to this stone preyed on, harvested, for the rest of their life https://t.co/bx9EXP22T9
when the time comes, will you know? how to collectively grieve will you know? that this has happened before. entire ecosystems destroyed, some never coming back will you know? how to live in a dying world, that's been dying for ages
this dance, this downturn. maybe you didn't need a manual for golden age, but this is not the golden age will you know? to keep your eyes dancing between the horizon where destruction is happening, and the here now of the ones you love around around you
will you know? the countless times ecosystems and peoples in history that have felt their homes be destroyed will you know? the few that held on. in some shape and form the small and big wins, here and there. the ozone hole, cigarette laws, repealing slavery
do feel a great alliance across history stretching back aeons? do you feel the descendants from the future smiling back on you? a time braid you are woven into, a time war you didn't know you were fighting in because it was happening on a timescale so slow to you https://t.co/SyPkWRTCZE
> The moment I first held my child, I had a vision of every human being who had ever done the same. I stood paralyzed, rooted to the spot while before my eyes a whole field of ancestors stretched back into the forgotten past, each cradling a baby just like I was doing. https://t.co/WPc1LiT2Cx
do you sense it? that force. modernity, emptiness, moloch. that invests everything into a society that can conquer and make weapons and return prey or profit https://t.co/mKG4gM4RGQ
>I am pretty sure there was, at one point, such a thing as western civilization. I think it included things like dancing around maypoles and copying Latin manuscripts >That civilization is dead. It summoned an alien entity from beyond the void which devoured its summoner and is… https://t.co/wL7QoX8252
erase. take over. conquer everything murder the land, kill the animals, and walk around with hungry ghosts https://t.co/xL86mvbuik
In a famous interchange, native elder (Ochwiay Biano Mountain Lake) of Taos Pueblo speaks with Carl Jung about what he sees in the white colonists. 'They're always seeking something. What are they seeking? They always want something, they're always uneasy and restless.'
it's an ancient force. this isn't our first rodeo https://t.co/KcfVY3ZUbg
the environmentalists have been through this grief. countless indigenous people have. even if you didn't care about any of that, this grief is coming for you there will be sth you love, sth it would make you afraid to see disappearing, that begins disappearing from the world