@yashalevine and @EvgeniaKovda interviewed me for their podcast. A great discussion. Heartening to see that there is something like a green/neo-Luddite/degrowth (post) left, however small, providing some counterpoint to the techno-utopians. https://t.co/bWWDRk0Azp
If only I had the faith the author has in Gen Z. In my experience they are more like the worst of the millennials: censorious puritans obsessed with pop, highly curated identities, and tech.
Impoverishment of imagination coupled with an inability to acknowledge our ecological situation defines millennial/zoomer socialists. No, we cannot all have new iPhones every year and why would we want to anyway? When the American way of life—capitalism—captures the soul.
Myth, an early and enduring human technology, will always be with us, in both unconscious and conscious forms. As we now face the slow-motion collapse. https://t.co/QPvOfJC84L
@christian_nesf They are a minority. It seemed to me that the majority of people were perfectly contented to accept a vapid anthem to sleazy disposable hookup culture as “empowering!” It’s an okay dance song, but I quickly tired of hearing about how revolutionary it was.
@christian_nesf I didn’t like it musically. I also felt that wasn’t especially representative female sexuality— just pandering to the male gaze. But I’ll still dance to it, I guess.