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• @teq@aus.social 2026-04-06 22:02

  @jadehopepunk Thanks for sharing. I highlighted a bunch of quotes in this, these three articulate themes I'm hearing across so many conversations at the moment. "We are in a tremendous conflict of worldviews now, and that underlies many of the most urgent political struggles in this moment. In one worldview in which even rivers and mountains are alive, in which everything has rights and is entitled to respect, widely shared (with wide variations) by indigenous peoples across the world, in which the connections between humans and between human and nonhuman life matter. Trump, on the other hand, perfectly embodies the worldview of extreme capitalism in which everything is essentially dead: a commodity to be owned, exploited, destroyed at will. If even rivers are alive in the one view, even human beings can be and only too often have been reduced to commodified disposable objects in the other, as the Epstein files only too grimly document. ... All these war are related; they all come from the same ideology of isolation and mentality of commodification. ... I believe these wars will all fail in the long run --not inevitably, not without heroic effort, but most likely – because they are more and more the manifestations of an old worldview that is increasing not just unpopular but not how we understand ourselves and our world. They benefit the few and not the many, which is why all these are connected to issues of rights and democracy and the environment. "

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