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Grumpus puts the humanities job market in context:
22. inverse_agonist - April 06, 2010 at 04:51 pm
It's quaint that people are talking about the future as if it's going to involve anything other than universal famine, misery, and warfare. Peak oil, climate change, and water depletion are coming to a head at the same time, and any one of those things on its own is enough to decimate food production.
It might have escaped general notice, but at this very moment we're in a mass extinction event at least as bad as the one that ended the dinosaurs. The idea that we're going to carry on in the midst of all this and continue to argue about Lacan is ludicrous.
We're animals that vastly overshot our environment's carrying capacity, so we're facing an inevitable population reduction. Food doesn't come from the store. It comes from the ground, and the ground is parched and depleted of nutrients.
Also, anybody that thinks we'll find a technological solution to these problems is uninformed, fooling themselves, or ascribing magical powers to Our Leaders That Will Take Care of Us.
Anybody that thinks these will be our children's problems is ignoring the news and forgetting that our parents said the same thing.
*trundles over to craigslist*
22. inverse_agonist - April 06, 2010 at 04:51 pm
It's quaint that people are talking about the future as if it's going to involve anything other than universal famine, misery, and warfare. Peak oil, climate change, and water depletion are coming to a head at the same time, and any one of those things on its own is enough to decimate food production.
It might have escaped general notice, but at this very moment we're in a mass extinction event at least as bad as the one that ended the dinosaurs. The idea that we're going to carry on in the midst of all this and continue to argue about Lacan is ludicrous.
We're animals that vastly overshot our environment's carrying capacity, so we're facing an inevitable population reduction. Food doesn't come from the store. It comes from the ground, and the ground is parched and depleted of nutrients.
Also, anybody that thinks we'll find a technological solution to these problems is uninformed, fooling themselves, or ascribing magical powers to Our Leaders That Will Take Care of Us.
Anybody that thinks these will be our children's problems is ignoring the news and forgetting that our parents said the same thing.
*trundles over to craigslist*