Comment by Gormo
18 days ago
> it's easier for the author to imagine the end of human civilization than it is to imagine a world without capitalism
Well, yeah, it absolutely is easier to imagine civilization collapsing than to imagine it a world in which human being do not expect to benefit from their efforts. Noting, of course, that "capitalism" as you mean it doesn't really even exist in the first place, as it's just an analytical model used to describe patterns of behavior that emerge from the motivations people already have.
Duck Duck Go: end of human civilization than it is to imagine a world without capitalism
limit to last year
I get: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-civilizatio...
(The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity is .)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-still-easier-to-imagine...
(It's Still Easier To Imagine The End Of The World Than The End Of ...)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/apocaly...
(A History of the End of the World - The Atlantic)
https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/imaging-a-world-after-ca...
(Imaging a World After Capitalism - Medium)
https://orwellsociety.com/can-we-truly-rebel/
(Can We Truly Rebel? - The Orwell Society)
Yes I think that's known.
Astral Codex is about AI, so maybe we'll get the end of the world, and the end of capitalism, and huge quantities of AI slop Tintin!
You're looking at aggregate patterns of human behavior, which originate in the pre-existing inclinations and motivations of those humans, and then trying to attribute them to some externalized, reified abstraction.
"Capitalism" construed as some entity unto itself simply does not exist. There is no "end of capitalism" that isn't itself an element of a general collapse of social organization and economic exchange.
So feudalism was a general collapse of social organization and economic exchange? Your analysis of capitalism is blinded by your obvious ideological bias
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