In the shower I was thinking about how assholes regularly use "law of the jungle" when defending capitalism and how they've never been anywhere near a jungle, much less studied their ecosystem, and then I thought, "why don't they use an ecosystem they'...
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In the shower I was thinking about how assholes regularly use "law of the jungle" when defending capitalism and how they've never been anywhere near a jungle, much less studied their ecosystem, and then I thought, "why don't they use an ecosystem they're more familiar with? Why not law of the forest?" (assuming most of the people using this phrase are using a heavily forested Europe as their point of reference)
and then I realized it's because of the otherness of jungles in terms of where they are, situated to Europe, which is racist, and THEN I realized they're not talking about the wild animals of the jungle, they're projecting some Lord of the Flies shit on the people they think live there, so it's like, doubly racist
And of course it's their own uncontrolled sociopathic tendencies they're projecting so it's extra shitty on top of being doubly racist
aaaaanyway fuck those assholes and fuck capitalism -
@aud Law of the forest? You mean those ecosystems with plants engaged in cooperative sharing and communication via root systems and mycorrhizal networks?
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"Law of the jungle" sounds better to them than "I like Belgian-Congo colonialism." -
@[email protected] Plus it implies the fault lies in the Congo part of that phrase and not so much the Belgian part.
fucking Leopold. -
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"Never get out of the boat." -
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@lmorchard @aud Law of the forest as in don't step in any mushroom circles and never give anybody your name
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@[email protected] (I would suspect that jungle ecosystems work very similarly, for the record, but also this. I should go specifically learn about jungle ecosystems so I can sealion those capitalist horsefuckers to death)
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@[email protected] perhaps Imperial Europe was the real Heart of Darkness all along
(it was)
But also, you bringing up this specific example makes me realize it's triply racist. Fucking... hat trick or turkey or whatever on racism. And it's almost always pulled out to defend some corporation doing the absolute shittiest fucking thing imaginable. Bleh. Very consistent, I guess.