Re: Missed this, but sums up well what's wrong with all organised Green crap Archived Message
Posted by mack on September 27, 2019, 8:24 pm, in reply to "Missed this, but sums up well what's wrong with all organised Green crap"
Not sure if you mean to use 'organised' as a pejorative (does sound that way). Designers 'organise' ideas into realities using topology/interactions/functions/form. We're always going to need design - or organisation. It's exactly what we need to find a way out of this mess. In fact, we can and should design our way out of this mess we've made and start clearing it up. Such a design system already exists. I think the article is naive to say that direct action is the only way and to say no to all other forms of activism (or whatever it is they deem fake. That's just silly. The vast majority of people who need their mind changed, live in huge cities, so unless you're going to start doing package tours to The Amazon to hunt illegal loggers, or something, then it's ...well, silly. Minds changed do matter, The pen is mightier than the sword may be worth remembering, at least while we're still pretending 'democracy'. direct action [to] save our planet, not media spectacles epitomised by Thunberg ...Yeah, that was it, but what happened to, All publicity is good publicity? Greta spoke some pretty uncomfortable truths, didn't she? Not least about the endless-growth capitalist wet dream; that goes to the very heart of our problems, isn't that a good thing to have been aired so forthrightly, that capitalism and the ecology are at loggerheads? I don't care if it's 'spectacle' or not, that's beside the point.
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