https://archive.md/oRn3z
"Wherever corporate power is running roughshod over culture, the climate, the
economy, or our politics, progressives can count on Naomi Klein to provide a
clear-eyed assessment of the damage and to offer pathways to resist with hope,
rather than cower in despair.
A social activist and public intellectual, Klein is the author of
The Shock
Doctrine — about how right-wing elites leverage moments of crisis to advance
unpopular economic agendas — and
This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus
the Climate, an examination of how free-market dogma is accelerating the
threat to our planet’s survival. Her most recent book,
Doppelganger, limns
how conspiracy culture is shattering our notions of shared reality.
Klein recently co-authored an essay for
The Guardian, sounding alarm about
the dark worldview of politically insurgent tech billionaires like Elon Musk
and Peter Thiel. Klein views these men — who are guiding Donald Trump’s
presidency — as abandoning any positive vision for our collective future, and
instead retrenching in preparation for a dark, nearly end times-level social
collapse, from which they and other elites emerge unscathed, and all powerful.
“The governing ideology of the far-right in our age of escalating disasters,”
she writes, “has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism.”
Rolling Stone reached out to Klein for a conversation about Trump’s unique
shock doctrine — as well as his administration’s confounding war on science and
basic research. Klein is a professor at the University of British Columbia,
where she directs the Centre for Climate Justice. (You can almost forget she’s
not American until you hear the pop of a hard ‘a’ when she says “against.”)
Klein also offered her views on the recent Canadian election, and the legacy of
Pope Francis, who invited her in 2015 to participate in the launch of his
encyclical calling for a shared reverence of the glories of our Earth."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
