Posts tagged malthusian thinking
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?

My worry is that, as alienating and bad as things are now, that the cessation of modernity might be followed by merely swapping one savagery for another. We like to believe that the world is growing less brutal and less violent, but the moral arc of the universe doesn’t bend towards justice: there is no arc. There is no absolute, inevitable progress. Everything that we get, we need to push for, fight for, argue for. It’s possible that the world might be a better and more just place if the modern era had never happened, but it has happened. If it is undone, it will most likely be undone through a great deal of suffering.

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Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersModernity, postmodernism, History, Historiography, Christopher Columbus, Native Americans, Political Economy, Philosophy, Mutant Epistemologies, Medieval Vision, Carolly Erickson, The Medieval Machine, Jean Gimpel, Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber, malthusian thinking, Rights, A People's History of the United States, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Immanuel KantComment
Against Enclosure: Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a House Built on Sand
Against Enclosure: Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a House Built on Sand

So, yesterday, I made the tremendous sacrifice of reading “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin, so you don’t have to. Hardin is not the canny thinker that they believe he is, and reading the original “Tragedy of the Commons” article he published in Science on 13 December 1968 shows just how flawed his reasoning is – and how bankrupt future ideological edifices built atop it are.

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Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersThe Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin, Essentialism, eco-fascism, racism, malthusian thinking, classism, ExterminismComment