Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz), page 2

Also from #Adbusters November 2022.

Mōrena e hoa mā!

We're out here doing the most punk rock thing you can do in the year 2023 AD, third year of the plague:

Wearing a mask to avoid catching and spreading the dangerous airborne pathogen everyone else is pretending doesn't exist anymore.

#CovidIsNotOver 😷

“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
― Murray #Bookchin

It's Murray #Bookchin's birthday! (yesterday in NZ)

In celebration and remembrance let's do a Bookchin quotes thread:

“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. (continues)

Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”
― Murray Bookchin

Be aware of these slow, leisurely, relaxed days.

Mindfully enjoy the change of pace, the relative tranquility.

It's nice.

Well, it could be something we enjoy regularly, not once a year. It could be a part of our 'week'.

We just need to choose to work less. To abandon the competitive growth obsession.

We can produce less, consume less, waste less and rest more, connect more with each other, play more and be healthier and happier.

Degrowth is a choice we could collectively make.