I don't really know architecture so well, but you might appreciate what they did with the rebuilding of Coventry cathedral, which pretty incredibly sits side-by-side with the husk left from the bombing in WW2. Some pics from the interior here. Their central cross is formed of nails from the old roof - in typical Catholic manner, they've passed these out internationally as a symbol of peace to about 300 other churches. P cool tbh.
How anyone can have the lib mindset where this one, or ever the next generation being the ones to have to struggle against the entirety of world capital or and ask, so politely for it to be nicer and let us survive its own crises baffles me. It isn't as though previous generations have necessarily passed the buck, they've similarly had their heads pushed down by the everyday cruelties and violence of the system: it's capital that can only insist the decaying planet can be fixed some warlock's combination of optimism, technology and Due Process. That isn't a rational perspective, it's a lie designed to drive you insane.
it was, the purpose was to prepare for the real sith empire, what they later represented in the tor mmo as being a bit of a disappointment compared to the mystique of that narrative setup
I spent a couple years engaged in some pretty innocuous (and quite lib) green activism at my university. We did info workshops, replanting what unqualified bureaucrats decided should be torn up, showed up to demos, and just generally tried to get people to give a shit: I know, when grounded in those terms, good luck. All of this came out of either ours or the student pocket - and if you listened at this time, you could hear the beginnings of the liberal capitalist culture blob rising from the ground to replace, redact and just generally make life harder if you're doing anything that doesn't support whatever bullshit UN climate goals they started to parrot as a PR shield. We eventually got dissolved after about four years of people giving less of a shit, right as those 'sectors' of activism became co-opted and effectively a buffer for the institution's ailing rep and quality.
Did I/we do anything that mattered if that time? Almost certainly not. What was 'raising awareness' as a mode to those types of communities has infected most of the orgs that people who care go to. Those people who - wide-eyed undergrads and ex-hippies - get disillusioned or somehow brainwashed into thinking the delicate corp-speak take on greening up their workplaces is anything other than easing to allow companies and industries to launder their nagging indifference, to busy people with bullshit trotskyite-esque minutiae while the planet burns.
Move forward a couple years, as the "warnings" well-meaning scientists and activists have been heaped on society have become normalised and (almost) banal to hear the latest reporting of, it's a herculean fucking task to not go full doomer about the situation and the likely reactions, but it's immensely important. The species isn't going to get wiped out, sure, but that shouldn't be the only thing people can give a shit about.
that I have to hear poorly-remembered orwell quotes and appropriations ad nauseum by the worst people on earth is a fucking curse, I have vietnam flashbacks of the same two or three lines alongside a vague reference to arendt, fuck em both
Thank you for this. I've not had the best luck with creative pursuits of late, what with the state of the world sapping my energy, but looking at this - yeah, fuck it, why shouldn't I give it a shot again.
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lmao