{"id":553,"date":"2017-10-31T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/?p=553"},"modified":"2017-10-31T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:17:07","slug":"life-after-capitalism-life-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/10\/31\/life-after-capitalism-life-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After Capitalism, Life After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Scranton is no doubt the catalyst for existential crisis within many minds. \u00a0He uses the shock factor of imminent death to convey coming to terms with our own demise. \u00a0Arguing that we have to accept societal death in order to survive, Scranton is pushing for a redefinition of American Culture. \u00a0The capitalist habitat we have come to love and appreciate for its plush ignorant veil over reality is holding us back from the possibility of life after death in the Anthropocene. \u00a0If we aren\u2019t willing to come to terms with the loss of our current idea of freedom we will never know a new way of life, and therefore life at all. \u00a0I agree with his ideas that a philosophical switch is absolutely vital to the progression of the human race. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Connecting this piece to the conversations we have had in class, freedom becomes a key word. \u00a0If we operate under the notion that freedom for many Americans, and likely others living in like-minded societies, is the right to whatever we want whenever we want it, then we have no chance of combating climate change. \u00a0This will eventually lead to our worst nightmare, no freedom at all, and by this I mean death. \u00a0The decision will be made for us. \u00a0If we will not change our idea of freedom it will be taken from us by the natural cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I explain this I refer to a situation in which we still have time to change, both in Scranton\u2019s piece and in the video we watched concerning the Syrian civil war, there is evidence that freedom may be further away than we are willing to believe. \u00a0When the Syrian civil war was explained it was characterized as the first climate caused war, is this accurate? \u00a0I would argue that the Iraq war was a resource war, as I think Scranton would agree, and therefore is an Anthropocentric war in a similar way. \u00a0Our American tax dollars went to fighting a war over oil because we are so dependent on it that we no longer have the freedom not to fight tooth and nail over it. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear America, you hit the peak, you fell over the edge, this is the end of what you know, adjust or lose everything. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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