Garrison Davis

Because we're so detached from that, right?

Despite being so connected, we're also so far away from the people who, their misery is a consequence of our consumption or of the system which makes our consumption the way it is.

Exactly.

And, you know, instead of thinking about how we can make society resilient, how we can reasonably and ethically and with consideration for seven generations, use the resources that we have and without endless throughput.

You know?

Yeah.

You have to en-shitify existing services so that you can extract more subscriptions, more payments, more upgrades, whatever the case may be.

The livability of entire cities has been wiped out because, you know, you have Airbnb and other private companies howling out something as basic as housing for all.

And so the pressure is to keep the whole machine running just outweighs any long-term considerations.

But like I keep saying, this normal was never sustainable.

But at the same time, it's easy to fall into this notion that they are manipulating the whole thing.

you know, that they manage the system in its entirety.

It's tempting to see the system as coherent, you know, to act like it's all piloted by one individual or group.

Yeah.

As some wise or malevolent parental figure.

And, you know, these institutions, they all rely to varying degrees on the appearance of competence, right?

Or they don't know that they don't know.

And in either case, they are pretending or believing that they have this grip on things.

So they think they're doing something, you know, brave and benevolent by not giving people all the information they need.

And worse yet, they fear that by sharing all the information that's