Excerpt from Tadzio Mueller’s forthcoming book:
I’m scared of the future.
It wasn’t always like this, because despite being a “commie eco faggot”, I am, first and foremost, a fairly privileged, bourgeois (albeit half-migrant, but white-passing) cis man, and as such the world didn’t, until recently, really have to frighten me. Until not so very long ago, until the end of the last decade, I was certain, on some deep psychological level — “knew,” in a way that was probably more faith than actual knowledge — that the future would be good, or at least: could be good. What exactly “good” meant, whether it was about “fully automated luxury communism” or global climate justice or “the good life for everyone” or simply “a good life and a pleasant old age for my husband and me,” wasn’t really the point; in any case, I was convinced that a “good” future for everyone in the world was possible.
But “the movements” didn’t win: the final battle never came, and the many second-, third- and fourth-to-last battles that are currently under way don’t look particularly good for the progressive side — the left, the greens, the remaining humanist centre. And instead of moving, a bit jerkily, two steps forward, one step back, towards a good, enlightened, liberated world for everyone, we’re moving in great strides towards something nobody really wants to think about. Towards collapse.
Read more on Tadzio’s blog.
Just Collapse 