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@LexyCameron yes, we'll just keep moving to a smaller raft as someone on the boat keeps bringing their drill along  Yesterday, I wrote a long post on the illusion of choice. Many of my thoughts on this were formed by a very old TED Talk given by Sheena Iyengar. https://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_the_art_of_choosing? I think one of the thorniest problems is that consumerism has groomed us to prize the illusion of choice and to conflate it with freedom. @LexyCameron π I get it. I do. But to add some more pertinent details: There's a visible hole in the raft and it's going to sink as well, we just don't know how fast. And there might be another raft in a storage locker behind this one but we can only get to it by cutting the first one loose, and the replacement raft might be even less seaworthy than the first. And the longer we dither about it, the less likely it is that either raft will save us. We are in great peril indeed. π’  I think Itβs more like this raft is seaworthy until it isnβt, but luckily a replacement raft with the same bearing will immediately take its place should that happen, because the line of succession is written in the Constitution. @LexyCameron hehe nah bro, you could also picture this with two broken liferafts and the Woman saying "voting is a Privilege, IT IS important that U make use of that Privilege and choose between this boat in which WE gonna sink or choose the other boat in which WE also gonna sink "   @LexyCameron is this about climate change and how the neoliberals are busy drilling more oil (and the people that keep voting them in because they control the media) |
@LexyCameron Not pictured: Several people who would have very much liked to get into the raft who were represented by the ones who pushed it away
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