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The West has no monopoly on wisdom. That skyscrapers and satellites do not prove superiority. That complexity isn’t the same as maturity.
Rich assholes and their corporations have refused their assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. They have usurped our election process and bribed our elected legislators to make them their own.
Growth, in its current industrial form, is a pathology. We built our entire civilization around it. We sacrificed rivers, forests, children’s futures, and our own sanity, to a logic that says more is always better.
We live in an addicted civilization. Industrialism, extraction, consumption… it’s a bender that never ends. We know it’s killing us, and still we can’t stop. That’s addiction.
The systems we live under want us fractured. Fragmented. Optimizing ourselves and mistrusting each other. They want freedom to be an illusion — something we chase, but never feel.
As lucrative as the high-tech, whizz-bang weapons industry has already been for Palantir, the future under the new Trump administration looks even brighter.
New film, In Symbiosis, looks at what’s gone wrong with food and farming (including the GMO and pesticides treadmill) and points to ways we can put them back on track towards greater sustainability and resilience.
Industrial agriculture is not a system in crisis. It is a system in command. Engineered with precision, it reflects the civilisational logic of industrial modernity: domination over cooperation, profit over sufficiency, scale over ecology.