#Capitalism like #degeneracy in late #Rome

According to rumors, which are difficult to prove historically, Roman decadence is said to have gone so far that rich Romans vomited in order to empty their stomachs between courses with delicacies.

This is exactly how today's capitalism seems to me, in which the super-rich fly around the world in their private jets or engage in space tourism regardless of climate change. They celebrate parties with high emissions, pay hardly any taxes, while the majority of people are already struggling to survive.

The best example of this for myself is Elon #Musk and Donald #Trump, who apparently believe they can do anything with #money.

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#finance #economy #politics #future #humanity #earth #emissions #climate #problem #metaphor

If the European Union 🇪🇺 were the #Shire then Europeans were all #Hobbits and could channel their inner #Frodo...

#Tolkien #middleEarth #fantasy #quote #wisdom #bravery #ai #art #artwork #europe #metaphor #unity

Travail sur soi

Work on yourself

#art #sculpture #métaphore #metaphor

Or we're all on the #Titanic, only most of us trapped below deck. On the lowest decks, they are already fighting for bare survival. On the upper decks, however, they're partying and discussing space tourism.

Maybe we should stop looking for the right #metaphor and finally save this planet.
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#crisis #future #climate #finance #economy #capitalism #humanRights #environment #finance #freedom #democracy #society #life #earth #emissions #meme #memes #survival

Hab' gestern einen Bock geschossen. (Metapher)

#myphoto, #TiereAmWegesrand No. 12, #Nordhessen, #TourDeChattengau

Da kannst du nicht meckern.

#SprichwortFoto, #Metapher, #Redewendung, #metaphor, #idiom, #Tiere, #Ziege, #animals, #Goat, #Foto, #photo, #Natur, #nature, #Radtour, #Fahrrad, #biking, #Chattengau, #Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, #Hessen, #fedibikes, @fedibikes_de group, @fedibikes group

Artist: Vladimir Kush

#art #painting #peinture #surrealism #surréalisme #metaphor #métaphore

#Metaphor for a bad #software #bug #fix.

#nerd #geek #developer #coder #hacker #meme #humor #satire

There are two ways to place oneself in a relation to life.
The intellectual difference between grammar and linguistics has something to teach us.

https://notesandsilence.com/2022/01/31/syntax-of-life
#zen #meditation #silence #quote #spirituality #language #communication #spirituality #metaphor

The Country of the Blind, by H.G. Wells (1913)

The had become purblind so gradually that they scarcely noted their loss. They guided the sightless youngsters hither and thither until they knew the whole valley marvellously and when at last sight died out among them the race lived on. They had even time to adapt themselves to the blind control of fire, which they made carefully in stoves of stone. They were a simple strain of people at the first, unlettered, only slightly touched with the Spanish civilisation, but with something of a tradition of the arts of old Peru and of its lost philosophy. Generation followed generation. They forgot many things; they devised many things. Their tradition of the greater world they came from became mythical in colour and uncertain. In all things save sight they were strong and able, and presently the chance of birth and heredity sent one who had an original mind and who could talk and persuade among them, and then afterwards another.

https://archive.org/details/countryofblindot00welluoft/page/536/mode/2up?view=theater

#HGWells #Fiction #Narrative #Parable #Metaphor #Blindness #Subtoot #Tablets #GenerativeComputing

We used to live in the Metaphor
now it's all Business
the science
of lies

#poetry #quotation #therainwillcome #metaphor #past #present #business #science #lies #living #art #poem #short

#NoTimeForCaution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV1767i8X4Q

this is what we're doing. this is the metaphor of our times.

an arrogant fool who would not listen blew it up, and now we have to do what seems not possible, because it is necessary. we need to line up with the system, match the rotation dock, hit the retro thrusters to slow the spin caused by the idiot blowing it up, and pull out of the dive before we burn up.

watch as often as necessary to remember this.

"what are you doing?"
"docking."
"that's not possible."
"no. it's necessary."

#listen

#docking

#mendwards #metaphor
#impossible #necessary

#notimeforcaution #weareinalotoftrouble

#playitloud #playitoften #worthrewatching