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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;

https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis

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#podcast#PastPresentFuture#HistoryOfBadIdeas#DavidRunciman#polycrisis

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Runciman seems to interpret the polycrisis as a "council of despair"; a claim that everything is unmanageable complicated, so no useful action can be taken. But I think this misses the point.

I see "polycrisis" as the opposite of "The NWO". Or "Capitalism", when it's used as the lefty equivalent. As a conspiracy by capitalists in smoky backrooms, instead of a system of incentives that disproportionately benefit them.

It reminds us to take a systematic view, and work on multiple fronts.

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Michael Graaf
@michaelgraaf@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@strypey The too-easy conflation of the collapse of the USSR with a "collapse of communism" is very global-North-narcissistic.
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Camille lives at Praxis Now
@camille@social.praxis.nyc replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@strypey
Oh thanks for sharing. I'm always on the lookout for ways I can speak and act with less jargon and bluster!
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