Garrison Davis

There's this whole world of NGOs and governments and states and it didn't matter.

These people still didn't have water.

I think also that instability within the system is part of it.

They all are ways for the powers that be to expand their wealth in some way, to expand their reach in certain territories.

And people, for the most part, just go along with it.

You know, it's hard to grapple with the existential threats that we face.

I don't have time to in many cases, especially when you have an administrative strategy that

But I see this attitude of arrogance, callousness and corruption.

It's like they're not even trying to maintain a veneer of legitimacy or intelligence or anything like that.

Yeah.

You know, they, they panic of course, or they fall into conspiracies or they deny that there is an actual problem.

It's hard to recognize what you are immersed in as a thing itself.

And it's only really in seeing and reading about alternatives that you get a glimpse of this normalcy and question to realize the system is natural or inevitable.

It's an aberration destined to decline no matter how much we want to believe otherwise.

That this script of working, consuming, careering, accumulating property and all is a normal that is actually kind of weird.

It's strange that an entire society is dependent upon globe-spanning supply chains, volatile markets, and oriented entirely around the quarterly earnings of elites.

You know, it's strange that normal is so narrowly conformist.

Those who don't conform are marginalized.

It's strange that normal means an illusion of independence that disguises the webs you will always rely on.

I'm just thinking now about people whose whole thing is being like homesteaders, but their homesteading is in itself a performance for the global supply, or the global market for distracting or entertainment or whatever you want to call it.