Founder of GreenBox Homes, and developer of The Innisfree, the world’s largest continuous food forest and eco-restoration project. Follower of Christ.
May 30 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
The Tragedy of the Millennials is that we grew up at the apex of the American Empire before the Global Digital Hegemon took over. An analog, affluent, and relatively gentle youth and adolescence has devolved into a never-ending series of "generational" calamities in adulthood.
In short: our lives have been one giant rug-pull. But what makes it worse is that we actually believed all the bullshit. In "E Unibus Pluram" David Foster Wallace predicted that Gen X's postmodern nihilism would prompt a neo-sentimentalist backlash.
I think the Bible essentially tells the story of the fall of man due to the agricultural revolution. 1/
Genesis in particular is really evocative for me. The order that God creates everything roughly tracks with the way science says everything evolved. 2/
Jul 3, 2022 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
I want to add that a cosmo-localist future could also be more equitable, more diverse, and simply more joyful. I simply can’t find a more reliable way of culture change than simply living the alternative and showing how much nicer it is.
I may be wrong of course. I’m just some dude, but I think the single biggest flaw with Liberals on the eco-breakdown front is that they think the choice is between these two extremes:
Jul 2, 2022 • 46 tweets • 7 min read
This an important question. What right do we have to force another group of people to buy into our values? The anti-colonial Left would say, & have been saying for years, that we have no right to do that. The neoliberal order, of course, begs to differ. 1/
