Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Survival

 Historically it was only life that had to worry about survival. Recently civilization has to worry about survival, because of nuclear weapons and fossil fuel. Survival of civilization vs survival of corporations is one thing nuclear weapons and fossil fuel have in common. Another is how corporations distort language to survive. Because corporations cannot exist without their product, they invent phrases like mutual assured destruction or climate change to divert blame for their threat against civilization from their product to society or the individual. That difference between the scapegoat is one difference between nuclear weapons and fossil fuel. We are meant to believe elites control the number of nuclear weapons, and consumers control the amount of fossil fuel. In fact, corporations control both, and the only way to survive is to eliminate companies that threaten survival.