Much of his time is spent alone in the Swiss Alps

Even though the Nazi image is made of living men, by living men, its beauty is dead.

we’re a master race destined to conquer the world and our leader knows what he’s doing, guided by fate

the elegance of science,

solarpunk aesthetics is currently the world’s best ticket to getting normal people to change the world, thereby saving human civilization.

Now, instead, imagine showing our medieval friends a video of a new home with running water and all the food available at the grocery store, and their interest might be peaked. Okay, that got me interested. How do we get there?

Here he was shown a replica of an American household with all the newest home appliances and was shocked to see the level of affluence enjoyed by ordinary middleclass Americans.

If the citizens of the free world do not soon begin to offer viable alternatives to authoritarian solarpunk, the battle for human dreams and desires will very likely be won by authoritarian powers. People will gladly sell out their freedom and democracy for a chance to live in what looks like an ideal society.

If the beauties and allure that capture the global public imagination and aesthetically define “the good life” are solarpunk-based, and if solarpunk is increasingly in the hands of authoritarian powers — what do you think will happen?

the super-rich create mansions and keep art galleries alive, the Catholic church raised cathedrals, and so forth, while communist or social democrat apartment blocks are generally functional and uninspiring — hence, the Louvre is not filled with 20th century stuff, but with stuff from more unequal and authoritarian days.

Its predation weeds out the sickly, preventing the much uglier injustice of collective weakness and disease,

Unfortunately, like every other species on the planet, we’re conservative: we don’t change our ways unless necessity forces us.

Nonoverlapping Magisteria

Michel Foucault’

This new vision of smartness is inextricably tied to the language of crisis, whether a financial, ecological, or security event.

This comment demonstrates one of the biggest misconceptions about kindness: that kind people are docile, accepting, and spineless. That—to avoid rocking the boat or inciting confrontation—they will meekly accept other people’s bad behavior and overlook injustice.

That radical notion — that we are not, in fact, at the center of the universe — gives rise to what modern scientists call the Copernican Principle: We are not privileged observers of the world around us. We don't occupy a unique place in the universe. We are profoundly ordinary. We are not special.

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