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Posted by Errant on 2024-September-1 12:36:47, Sunday
In reply to Re: Apocalypse seems to be on your mind lately posted by diogenes on 2024-August-31 07:43:03, Saturday

"... easier for us to imagine future scenarios involving the total destruction of the biosphere than it is to imagine the supercession of capitalism."

Aren't they the same thing? That's why they call it the tragedy of the commons, not the tragedy of private access.

Of course, the attraction to post-apocalyptic movies isn't really because of the apocalypse itself, but about how their characters face it. It shares these features with other staples of American cinema such as the Western film and the War film (especially nihilistic anti-war films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket) in which the institutions of civilization are absent for one reason or another and the individual is left to exercise their moral agency to the fullest even on the most questionable of choices because of the stark exigency by which the problems they face are presented. Arguably, it is part of the much longer tradition of the Hero vs Chaos genre. People universally find strongmen compelling because they are decisive, whether they be the big towering strongmen of traditional myth or the little everyman strongmen of today's narratives. I happen to think that a little fantasy is harmless... provided we don't have a political system that enables those fantasies unhinged from any direct personal consequences as the tragedy of the commons entails.

Errant

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