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I was picked to play Capulet in my high school's post-apocalyptic cyberpunk take on Romeo & Juliet; and Cigarette Smoking Man in a shot-for-shot remake we did, just for fun, of the X-Files Movie. Just to support your guess that I like to role-play as the bad guy lol. Or at least the antihero.

What really apalls me about the so-called Green movement is that it doesn't really have anything to do with conservationism or environmentalism. Those aren't really political positions, they're really fundamentally aesthetic, driven by the spiritual value of wilderness. It isn't right or left, as can be seen by the historical fact that it has been enthusiastically adopted by hippies (left), Teddy Roosevelt conservatives (right), and the literal Nazis (far right). On the other hand, it's been rejected by Soviet communists (far left), and industrial capitalists (right). Environmentalism is a third dimension to the political compass, orthogonal to the economic and authoritarian axes.

What the green carbon cult really represents is a technocratic power grab that substitutes the concentration of a trace constituent of the atmosphere for conservation of wild lands. By playing that little card trick it's able to leverage the genuine, and positive, desire of most humans to live in harmony with a beautiful world, and subvert that into support for the expert class to reduce the world's population to slaves. In the meantime, yet vampire zombie squid system gets summoned into being, in which human paperclip maximizers autistically reduce all life to carbon reduction while happily wreaking all sorts of economic and, yes, environmental havoc that they remain blissfully oblivious of because it doesn't fall into their sole category of 'is it carbon tho'.

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You’re dating yourself ;)

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