Opening your comment with an ad hominem doesn’t inspire any serious response from me. Open borders is a neoliberal capitalist invention to drive profit margins and endless growth. I assume you are using fascist as an empty signifier rather than any concise definition. You’ll also need to cite your own sources for the claim about politicians, I’m not going to search for it.
Is your community transitioning away from global industrial agriculture to a more localized sustainable model? Populist sentiments and emotive statements don’t really solve problems.
The nordic countries benefit from a small population and homogenous culture. It’s not a feasible model for large and diverse countries like the US.
That said, it is still an unsustainable model.
https://www.sustainabledevelopmentindex.org/
If you dig into the data, even with their high sdg ratings, they are in the red on many metrics and rank poorly in « spillover ».
https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/rankings/
And regardless, does not change the trajectory of human-induced mass extinction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
The nordic models don’t have ubi, and the subsidized welfare/paid parental are only possible because of their small populations, cultural consensus (homogeneity), high taxes and high gdp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_in_the_Nordic_countries
It’s a global system, the world goes with it, and in the past collapses people had a place to escape to, a system to fall back on. We have no where to go this time.
Despite the possibility of avoiding collapse, Kemp remains pessimistic about our prospects. “I think it’s unlikely,” he says. “We’re dealing with a 5,000-year process that is going to be incredibly difficult to reverse, as we have increasing levels of inequality and of elite capture of our politics.
I’ve read the book. The analysis is great, it proposes some interesting ideas to possibly prevent collapse, but like the article states at the end, it’s unlikely. I would argue impossible, and communities should be organizing towards localization of production and self-sufficiency if they are to even survive.
That would be endless growth. It is the culture now.
If you’re interested, this reddit thread has an interesting take on the reasoning behind their trolling strategy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/1o5dq1p/i_found_magas_playbook/
After repetitive exposure to this propaganda (repetition priming), the people were beginning to believe and stand up for what each respective government had been flashing before their eyes, without them even knowing it.
https://sites.psu.edu/psych256sp18003/2018/03/04/h/
The fact of being exposed to propaganda and misinformation, repeatedly and continuously, has a psychological affect over time.
The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges.
Propaganda, Jacques Ellul
It sounds like you are agreeing to my original point in a round about adversarial way. Any ideology that presupposes humans as rational actors is destined for failure.