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2026-05-01 00:01 UTC
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@stepheneb
> When you can still imagine something that’s lost that’s something you might be able to get back
Absolutely. This why accelerating this generational forgetting, and undermining any attempt to sustain collective memory, is a key project of corporatist propaganda. Sometimes known as 'capitalist realism'.
The late David Graeber pointed out that there's a reason it's easier to imagine the end of the world than a post-capitalist one. The late Mark Fisher described it.
@Jeroen89
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-05-01 00:02
(2/2) This doesn't just apply to environmental loss either. I grew up with a frayed social safety net compared to what my parents' generation grew up with. My daughter's generation has grown up with a partially dismantled one. If we don't turn things around now, my granddaughter will grow up without one, and will never know what it was like to have one. This is not acceptable.