#Malthusian

[rh35211]

Ghost caught on cam? Video of scary figure at King Charles III’s coronation goes viral - India Today

[offcampusstillnerdy]

Absolutely this. A well-studied phenomenon. One example is the overlap around 1930s Euro fascism and fascinations for healthy lives/ bodies, set in an imaginary bucolic. Another is contemporary Hindu fundamentalist nationalism that demonises Indian Muslims, Christians and castes/ communities that are not high-caste Hindus - yoga and vegetarianism have become tools of violence and hate. (You can look this up or ask me if you want links).

The vegan to ecofascist pipeline

[kinialohaguy]

Breathe

Aloha kākou. Life on this planet is a symbiosis between the earth and its inhabitants. It’s been this way since God created the heavens and the earth. As told in the Book of Genisis, God gave man domain over the earth. The geological history of this planet is the science as we know it to be. From ice ages to the movement of tectonic plates, volcanoes, floods, and mass extinctions, the evolution…

[geographicbook]

The Malthusian Theory

INTRODUCTION The Malthusian Theory, propounded by the English economist Thomas Robert Malthus in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, stands as a pivotal contribution to the discourse surrounding population growth, resource availability, and their interplay within societies. Malthus’ theory revolves around the notion that population tends to expand exponentially while resources, particularly…

[guillaumechrist]

[justslowdown]

Oh, don't look at me

Is it anybody's business

What I believe?

Oh, I cannot love

Is it anybody's business

Where I get off?

Oh, forest fiery tree

The mahogany in misted

Foils what I grieve

Oh, horse run with me

Your Malthusian mistress

Pulls at my sleeve

[probablyasocialecologist]

Thomas Malthus, who is often interpreted as arguing for population control to overcome economic limits, actually invoked the threat of limits to advocate for growth, arguing that scarcity is a natural fact, and that only a growth-based economy could overcome it. In this way, Malthus was one of the first ‘apostles of growth’. Since then, both neoclassical economists and elites sought to further cement the idea that growth is needed to overcome natural scarcity as common sense. But scarcity is not a natural fact. Rather, scarcity, as well as the social hierarchies that limit autonomy and self-determination, are imposed by a capitalist system of production. As a corollary, degrowth is not about imposing limits on society according to natural scarcity, but about regaining autonomy to collectively create public abundance, and also deliberate and set limits. And this – collectively setting limits – is a key prerequisite for the formation of autonomous, democratic governance, as the Greek philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis argues in his work. Indeed, it is precisely capitalism – through alienating us from each other and from the abundance of the earth – which undemocratically imposes limits on us and makes it impossible for us to set our own. Thus, just as degrowth is about the collective reappropriation and dépense of social surplus, it is also about the rejection of natural scarcity, the undoing of imposed limits set on us by capitalism and hierarchy, deliberating collective limits, and thus about creating a self-determined post-scarcity society.

The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

[charliejaneanders]

Apart from all the other reasons to criticize Firefly/Serenity, I was just remembering how the movie begins with straight-up, no-shit Malthusianism.

"Earth-That-Was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many."

Science fiction has a serious Malthus problem.

[curiosity-killed]

@ god why does my brain specifically and exclusively hate economics

[ultramaga]

https://archive.is/WLhfC

Remember the mantra, folks. It never happened. Only a Nazi would say it happened. Sure it happened - but that's a GOOD thing. We never said it didn't happen -- you must be crazy to remember otherwise!

[stonefemblues]

i was just looking for more phrases like “jacking off” or “cranking the hog” what the hell are these

[kinialohaguy]

Baby Parts For Sale

Aloha kākou. Planned Butcherhood is selling aborted fetal body parts for Intellectual Property rights. They’re selling body parts for money and lucrative patents. Leftist politicians call abortion “Reproductive Rights” or healthcare. Hawaii’s Senator Brian Schatz posted this statement on “X” today, “No health care provider should have to be afraid of going to jail or losing their license for…

[astromechs]

inferno was such a waste of felicity jones

[bicokun]

“I have never understood why some people are lucky enough to be born with the chance that I had, to have this path in life and why across the world, there is a woman just like me with the same abilities and the same desires, same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and better speeches. Only she sits in a refugee camp, and she has no voice. She worries about what her children will eat, how to keep them safe, and if they’ll ever be allowed to return home.”

Angelina Jolie

There are some rare examples of people in poverty who were able to rise to prominence in history, but that was often due to strokes of luck and support from those who did have resources. If everyone on this planet had resources to have a proper education, not having to struggle for survival, etc., we would have many more people who would be able to contribute to our scientific and creative fields in the same way as those we designate as “genius”.