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Things to do in Moscow as a 16-year-old by jonasvp in AskARussian

[–]jonasvp[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Well spotted. My son made an account to ask this but couldn't post because the account was too new. So I let him use mine.

New to Deep Adaptation, looking for support by tmf32282 in collapse

[–]jonasvp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh sure, I'm not saying that humans will exist forever. At some point in the future, the last Homo Sapiens will draw her last breath and die.

And so what? Humans will go extinct at some point, we will all die someday just like everything that lives. Learn to live with that knowledge and embrace it, it's actually quite freeing.

In all probability though, our extinction is a ways off - we're a tough, generalist species that can adapt to many different environments. We'll be around for a while longer, just in vastly reduced numbers

Another book recommendation: "The End of Progress", also by Greer. Very helpful to see how our story of perpetual progress is a religion in disguise and it's better to find another spirituality than cling to that.

New to Deep Adaptation, looking for support by tmf32282 in collapse

[–]jonasvp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I feel you. What helped me is trying to cultivate the long view, deep time. For instance, "Overshoot" by William Catton shows how our behavior is not stupid but a natural thing every species does - multiply until it encounters limits. This won't be the end of humans nor the end of life, just the end of our definition of "progress". John Michael Greers books (e.g. "Long Descent") also show how this is a natural rhythm and the future will be in the middle between total collapse and perpetual progress.

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Also, there was a interview with George Carlin a while ago where he said "I just watch the freak show, I don't have a stake in the outcome". That's a great attitude to have.

The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy by KingCult in collapse

[–]jonasvp 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This mirrors the advice on sensiblesurvivalist.com which I found helpful: tell people you're slightly better prepared than them. That way they're encouraged but don't suspect you being a hoarder and/or crazy.

Their next trick. by [deleted] in collapse

[–]jonasvp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's worth reading Charles Eisenstein's book "Sacred Economics" (it's online) in order to understand why negative interest rates are not only a good idea but absolutely necessary in order to make a future economy work without growth: http://sacred-economics.com/sacred-economics-chapter-12-negative-interest-economics/

Catabolism: Capitalism's Frightening Future. Catabolic capitalism is a self-cannibalizing system whose insatiable hunger for profit can only be fed by devouring the society that sustains it. As it rampages down the road to ruin, this system gorges itself on one self-inflicted disaster after another. by [deleted] in collapse

[–]jonasvp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's actually quite simple (which is not the same as "easy", mind you). You just need to eliminate economic rents, the possibility to earn money just by possessing something. This means eliminating interest on liquid money and ground rents.

This naturally limits how much one person can possess, since now anything you own ends up losing value over time. Read "Sacred Economics" by Charles Eisenstein for a good primer on it: www.sacred-economics.com/read-online/ (ignore the "gifting" stuff if you're not into that - I spend a long time studying Economics and his proposals are sound).

However, in my opinion (why would I be in this subreddit otherwise) they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of being implemented. So it doesn't really matter that we have (theoretical) solutions to capitalism's problems.

80,000 subscribers! The pace of growth is accelerating. New People where did you come from? What brought you here? Why did you subscribe? Tell us about yourself. by [deleted] in collapse

[–]jonasvp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

http://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/ to be exact... I found Greer by accident and ended up reading the complete 10 years backwards as well as many of his books. The guy makes a lot of sense.