this ideological attractor is a dangerous tendency among the spiritually nihilistic, those who live by fear instead of hope; too many of the brilliant people I know are stuck in this developmental dead end; this degrowth mindset is the seed of the antispiral
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RT @deepfates
I have some friends who are future oriented and into space, AI, etc. but they've bought into the academic/activist left worldview and it clearly causes them a great…
https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1471962776591495168
the nature of life is to ceaselessly struggle against entropy, to desperately fight for survival in a cold inhospitable universe, carve out a niche from the chaotic cosmos; this is élan vital, life force, spiral power, w/e you call it; the will to go on.
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RT @pee_zombie
homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this wa…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393631100497432577
Gurren Lagann is not just one of the best anime of all time, but also a major source of my personal spiritual inspiration. the concept of the antispiral comes from the show, a reification of the degrowth impulse discussed in the OP. survival requires risk
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RT @pee_zombie
@architectonyx the antispiral is the primary antagonist of the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann anime series
it represents the opposite of spiral power, aka life energy,…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1463012841460486144
I see those who'd hold back human progress out of fear, tribalism, politics, or depression, as my spiritual enemies; there cannot be agreement btwn us when our values are so fundamentally divergent; enabling the flourishing of life is the greatest goal.
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RT @pee_zombie
those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough
however, most of them don't…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385334366948184066
