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The War on Reality, Mary Harrington & Paul Kingsnorth

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

Is Commerce the Most Fundamental Driver?

I have a terrible feeling that the driver is metaphysical. This is not just about making money. There's something going on with the creation of this post human metaverse, machine er, machine machinist  a world in which they're trying to recreate heaven on earth. I think we started with the rational individual can detach himself from naturenand build his own paradise. Now we've got the technology to do it, or soon i think as it's really encompasses the whole thing. That's exactly what's happening. And the the demonizing of the e of the turfs and the fashest and everybody else, is precisely part of that project, which is to silence and

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