Into the Psychozoic
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Into the Psychozoic
We are riding down the dark rapids of Collapse. Earth chemistry and the whole historical complex of Sartre’s “what’s been done to us” have a vast say over our destiny, but we too have a say. The stories we choose, the choices we make, the fights we step up to, the solutions we put forward, matter. As Marx said, we make our own history, but not in c
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Plus largement, l’Anthropocène est le nom donné à cette nouvelle époque géologique qui caractérise notre présent4. Nous – les humains – sommes sortis de l’Holocène, une époque d’une remarquable stabilité climatique qui a duré environ 12 000 ans et qui a permis l’émergence de l’agriculture et des civilisations. Depuis quelques décennies, les humains
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This evolving proto-WEIRD psychology gradually laid the groundwork for the rise of impersonal markets, urbanization, constitutional governments, democratic politics, individualistic religions, scientific societies, and relentless innovation. In short, these psychological shifts fertilized the soil for the seeds of the modern world.
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it would appear the plague-clouds are within us, too. They illustrate the interconnectedness of our inner and outer worlds. They betray a certain flimsiness of human agency, painting our decision-making in strokes of environmental influence far bolder than our intuition suggests. And they throw the climate crisis into fresh, stark relief: because, ... See more