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Roy Scranton

“You’ve heard the call: We have to do something. We need to fight. We need to identify the enemy and go after them. Some respond, march, and chant. Some look away, deny what’s happening, and search out escape routes into imaginary tomorrows: a life off the grid, space colonies, immortality in paradise, explicit denial, or consumer satiety in a wireless, robot-staffed, 3D-printed techno-utopia. Meanwhile, the rich take shelter in their fortresses, trusting to their air conditioning, private schools, and well-paid guards. Fight. Flight. Flight. Fight. The threat of death activates our deepest animal drives.”

Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (City Lights Open Media) Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton
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