Currently I’m reading Nina Burton’s ‘Livets tunna väggar’ which translate to something like Walls of Life. It’s a book by a Swedish writer who inherits her mother’s summer house. When she wants to renovate it, she finds all sort of life around and in the house. She uses said life to teach you something about the intellect of various insects and animals, which goes deeper than humans normally think.
It’s a very interesting book that makes me think about non-human life even more. Creatures that are thousands of times smaller than we are have such complex societal structures. Humans have overcommodified animal life for centuries now, seeing them as property and commodities instead of complex and intelligent life forms.
What are you reading?
such that it might never collapse on its own.
It certainly made capitalism more stable for a while, but once the US runs out of imperial power and those trillions of dollars in debt aren’t backed by any real goods they’ll get in deep trouble.
Yes. The trillions of US dollar-denominated debt can always be paid, so the collapse won’t come from that directly. But imperial power is fading and attempts to retain/regain it seem to be accelerating that. The Biden admin. factions that are attempting re-industrialization are at odds with the FIRE factions, and when the Republicans get back in power, they’re unlikely to do any better. What do we make now but dollar-denominated loans and expensive, underperforming weapons?
