Leoliberalism
Neoliberalism with leonine characteristics
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Leoliberalism
Neoliberalism with leonine characteristics
7mo ago
It's more than a little suspicious to me that every solution to climate change is something the left already wanted to do for other, unrelated reasons.
Is this true? Many of the proposals you identify with left wing now-more-than-everism emerged as reactions to climate change and other environmental problems. Others are of questionable popularity even on the far left (anti-natalism and mandatory vegetarianism are distinctly marginal position). Beyond that, you have boring centrist proposals like carbon taxes and emissions regulations (in fact, these are prone to being vilified by far left activists for being insufficiently radical, probably because they're more likely to be implemented).
In any event, it seems of little surprise that most proposed solutions for climate change are left-coded when the standard right-wing position is that climate change either isn't real or isn't a problem. The argument takes place almost entirely between the center and the left because the right refuses to participate.
Leoliberalism
Neoliberalism with leonine characteristics
7mo ago
Is it worse? The trouble with these conversations is that it almost inevitably involves cherry picking examples in an entirely non-rigorous way. I haven't played Marathon, so I'll take your word for it that it's well-written, but it came out in 1994. Wikipedia's list of "notable releases" in 1994 includes Marathon, but also includes games like TIE Fighter, Tekken, Doom II, and Earthworm Jim. These are not bad games (in fact, they are by reputation pretty good), but they are not exactly known for their brilliant writing. Back in the early days of video games, it was extremely common for games to have almost vestigial plots. As I understand it, this was the product of a mixture of indifference and technical limitations (story took up space, which was at a premium).
Undoubtedly there are more games with bad or mediocre writing, but that's mostly because there are more video games and they're more likely to attempt a story. I can cherry pick recent games with good writing as well (e.g. BG3, CP2077), but that doesn't really prove anything.
Leoliberalism
Neoliberalism with leonine characteristics
7mo ago
I suspect some of the skepticism of climate activism is that the solution always seems to be more socialism
Undoubtedly some of it is that, but it seems likely that the primary driver is the aggregate weight is economic interests and cultural/lifestyle preferences.
A technocratic-capitalistic response that involves stopgap geoengineering + carbon taxes + a transition to net zero emissions is still going to mean a shift from policies that privileges fossil fuel usage, car-centric lifestyles, and low-density development to policies that penalize them. This is bad news if you work in the fossil fuel industry (or just live in a state where the fossil fuel industry is a major economic engine) or like car-centric lifestyle and low-density development. For that matter, it's bad news if you like beef.
I would be willing to bet that the most common romantic pairing in American media is still white man/white woman, followed by white man/ethnically ambiguous but relatively pale skinned woman (e.g. Andy Samberg/Melissa Fumero).
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