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no matter what we thought would be "the big one" - it wasn't. #peakoil wasn't it. 2008 wasn't it. #complexity didn't collapse in on itself but build up. #covid wasn't it. the russian war wasn't it. the system is very resilient, more than anyone anticipated thinking about these things. you call it a "#superorganism" - well if it is then it wants to live. living things want to stay alive. they might be drinking & smoking, but the want to stay alive.

#collapse
#talkcollapse
#collapseology

Face à la Ville, nous ne sommes pas des fourmis, mais plutôt des cellules. Toute notre fébrilité la fait se croître, s'étendre, se complexifier. La Ville doit grandir, et consommer.
La Ville est vivante, et a faim.

#architecture #art #city #horror #monster #superorganism

We're not ants, but rather cells of the superorganism that is the City. All our little activities and actions makes the City grows, expand, complexifies. The City must keep growing, consuming.
The City's alive, and hungry.

I haven’t gone enough into Buddhism to understand whether what is described in this article by Richard D. Bartlett constitutes as secular version of it, but from my limited knowledge, it would appear so.
That’s not in any way to downplay the important insights that Rich brings to the fore in his writing. For example, asking the question […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/31/superorganisms-and-solidarity/

Interesting...
Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism

doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.201
>We lack a cohesive map on how behavior, economy, and the #environment interconnect
>Global #human #society is functioning as an #energy dissipating #superorganism
>#ClimateChange is but one of many symptoms emergent from this growth dynamic
>Culturally, this “Superorganism” doesn’t need to be the destiny of #Homosapiens
>A systems #economics can inform the ‘reconstruction’ after #financial recalibration