our ability to calculate that statistic is a product of the same neuroses that makes our unstoppable drive to consume the entire earth continue forward forever
no and this take is fucking insane. it’s because we have an elder god of capital urging us towards collective suicide under threat of mass starvation is what’s causing us to consume the earth. counting extinct insects is literally directly disincentivized by our current economic structure for the exact same fucking reason that structure is destroying everything with reckless abandon. hence why this useless fucking article disapproving of the practice was written. read theory or shut up (the unabomber’s shitty ass manifesto doesn’t count nor does Zerzan “the disabled dying is just how it has to be” PrimitivistMan)
many people spent millennia having access to rational thought without committing genocide, fix your angloid brain, murder isn’t equivalent to “progress”
read theory or shut up (the unabomber’s shitty ass manifesto doesn’t count nor does Zerzan “the disabled dying is just how it has to be” PrimitivistMan)
Now, that’s unfair to anprims. Their theorists also include the illustrious Leslie Keith, whose claims to fame include making explicit transphobia a part of the movement and writing a book about how veganism is bad.