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RE: World's Scientists Issue Climate Emergency Warning

in #news4 years ago

We will never be able to eradicate this, as the frog has been slowly cooked into the pot before it realized that it was going to be boiled.
Taking inspiration from Z. Bauman "Retrotopia" (Chapter 3 - back to inequality), what moves both single individuals and masses is not inequality per se but the perception of inequality in comparison with a certain social benchmark (i.e. our colleague, someone with our same academic records, our neighbor, a similar professional category and so on). Today in this liquid and turbo-capitalistic society we don't have a benchmark anymore. We have been progressively flooded by consumeristic fetishes at the point that - with full customer satisfaction - our criticism has been traded for likes and upvotes. The frog is already boiled in the pot, the water temperature was raising too gradually for it to understand what was happening and, most probably, it was busy taking a selfie.