Everyone should see this.

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23. He sounds European

Incidentally, I was just reading a journalist I respect and like a lot, Yasha Levine, who was talking about how Europeans made some of the best documentaries on the net..

(I didn’t agree with the specific examples he gave as I took an immediate and profound dislike to Adam Curtis. Dian Fossey was awesome and Curtis can go fuck himself..I agree with his self characterisation as some sort of creepy, family values neoconservative who attacks environmentalists using bullshit. The real colonization here is one species destroying an entire planet for every whim it has..He is the type of person I truly loathe.

I think Yasha is awesome and invariably agree with Yasha on most of what he dislikes…less so wrt anyone or anything he likes .

But that’s okay..disagreement is allowed on the left unlike among the monarchists.

Left or right there is a strong dominion theology style “earth exists for humans to exploit” mentality in the species everywhere. Every trivial human superstition is accorded more weight than common decency to other lifeforms (and I don’t mean bloody ai). It is not surprising that something that rotten morphs into manipulation, exploitation, swindling and subjugation of one’s fellow humans eventually. Full credit to Nathan Robinson for addressing that.

It’s not surprising that environmentalists, feminists (not “lean in” etc), scientists (not the tech creeps) and atheists in combination are so unpopular - for full control over the material world and destruction of democracy those are all groups to “delete”.

I do worry separately though that the effect of the techno oligarchs will be to - in our species’ typical mindless backlash fashion - cause neoconservative hogging of the backlash to sell family values/pronatalism and other deeply regressive values, while attacking women’s rights/feminism/lgbtq rights & science. Iow narrowly focus only on working class values - syncretic bs..the environment has already been tacitly dumped as unimportant by both sides except in explicitly human centric terms. There is a tendency in that type of rot left/right to attack women’s rights as imperialist or some such bullshit. I see it with the creepy men’s rights types where I live all the time. I fight for privacy but thanks to the present environment while I think it can be won, in the interim I worry about poor data hygiene. I would definitely not want the types of meninists I see on my street to assume that sympathy for a different type of left means they are in any way cool.).

The broader point though is probably true. And Yasha is always cool.