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    <title>Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-14T09:36:30+00:00</dc:date>
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"It might seem surprising, in a world of global stars, that the 6m Danes, many of whom are fluent in English, listen mainly to homegrown music. And until fairly recently they did not. In 2019 only five songs in Denmark’s top 20 were in Danish. By last year the figure was 18.

A similar trend is under way in other countries — and in other forms of entertainment. From Asia to the Americas, music charts are increasingly dominated by local sounds. Hollywood television-streaming companies are commissioning more local productions in foreign markets, causing consumption of American shows to fall. Social networks are connecting the whole world, but so far people are mainly using them to consume local content. And as video gaming expands, it too is becoming increasingly tailored to local cultures."

...

"In music, video and interactive entertainment, global tech platforms have made it easier than ever to distribute entertainment around the world. Yet the sheer abundance of content that these platforms have helped to generate means that, more than ever, global audiences are able to assert distinctively local preferences."]]></description>
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In this episode, renowned travel writer Pico Iyer describes how globalization – which offered up the mirage of a global monoculture – has instead led to a clash of civilizations and identity. For Pico, wisdom resides not in mastery but in doubt. From his decades of constant travel to his retreats in silence, Iyer describes how humility and stillness can open a clearer view of the world than certainty ever could.

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2:15 What’s in a Name
4:28 Travel and Stillness
7:19 The Contemplative Life
9:02 The Mirage of Globalization
14:06 The Inward Clash of Civilizations
17:36 The Nation of No Nation
24:24 The Return of the Strong Gods
26:54 Science, Spirituality, and the Dalai Lama
31:36 Leonard Cohen and the Half-Known Life
40:50 Ego and Undeludedness
43:00 Living in the Moment
46:41 Fire and Impermanence
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    <title>Ideas That Cannot Be Spoken - by Hamilton Nolan</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-30T04:32:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Spotting cowards in the public discourse."

...

"Most jobs come with a series of unappetizing demands. You must wake up early. You must endure a long commute. You must perform sweaty physical labor, or serve the thankless public, or corral a classroom of unruly kids, or waste away in a dreary cubicle. You must perform these grueling, tedious tasks, in exchange for an amount of money that is surely smaller than you deserve, in order to obtain food, clothing, and shelter, lest you and your family become destitute. This is the baseline reality of work for the average person.

Then there are the minority of jobs that are easier, more enriching, that offer fulfillment and meaning and a sense of purpose and a humane lifestyle. One place that some of these rare good jobs can be found is in the Ideas industry—among the journalists, pundits, political thinkers, activists, and self-styled Thought Leaders who collectively produce the National Discourse. In comparison to most real jobs, these are great gigs. Instead of hammering nails, you are talking to interesting people; instead of making sandwiches, you are doing research; instead of manning a cash register, you are writing some essay; and instead of being treated as a replaceable and undervalued cog in the machine of capitalism, you get to enjoy the enlivening process of people seriously engaging with your ideas. Whether you are getting rich or not, there is no question that you are blessed with a career that is infinitely more rewarding than that which is given to most of America’s 170 million working people.

Participating in the Ideas industry carries one underlying moral demand: To tell the truth. You do not have to sweat and slave and struggle and serve in the same way that most working people do, but in exchange, you owe to the world your very best effort to say things that are true, and that are righteous, and that reflect exactly what you believe to be an accurate reading off the world. Different thinkers will deliver different and competing ideas, but all of the ideas they deliver—in order to justify the presumption that they are worth your time—must come with the implicit guarantee, “Here is my best argument for something true.”

This quality is what makes The Discourse worth a damn. If everyone argues forthrightly for their own vision of truth and justice, the interplay of all of these arguments produces a national conversation that progresses in a productive, informative, enlightening way. That’s the deal. As soon as you lose track of this, you begin straying off the path of Thinker and onto the path of Propagandist. That is the path to the Bullshit industry—a separate (and more lucrative) world than the Ideas industry. That is where political communicators try to trick you with half-truths, and public relations strategists scheme to avoid difficult questions, and advertising executives concoct campaigns designed to bathe you in illusion. All of that exists, but it is a different thing. The thing that distinguishes those of us who purport to operate in the world of ideas is that we are not trying to rip you off—we are trying to persuade you with the truth.

A happy quality of this arrangement is that it treats all consumers of the ideas as equal. My job as a writer is not to go into some secret back room with The People Who Really Matter and agree on a narrative designed to dupe you and then to emerge and perform this narrative for you in a way that I think you are likely to fall for. No! My job is to squeeze my little brain as hard as possible until I feel like I have a clear picture of something that is true and important and then squeeze it some more until I have figured out the best way to say these things and then say, to everyone who cares to listen, “Here is what is true, and here is why it’s important, and here is why doing this thing will be good for humanity.” You may think I’m an idiot. You may find my knowledge base lacking, my moral framework twisted, my arguments unpersuasive. You may curse me as a vile socialist, an unsophisticated ignoramus, a repetitive bore. All of that comes standard in the course of writing for the public. (Indeed, your thoughtful attacks on what you see as the holes in my argument are the things that produce The Discourse that we are all a part of.) The one thing that you should not be able to say about my work is that I am not telling you what I really think. That is the price of entry to the worthwhile part of the Ideas industry. We may be bastards, but we are not bullshitting you.

You should therefore be very suspicious of anyone who claims to be in the Genuine Ideas business but who is afraid to fully speak their mind in public. For the past half decade at least, America has been bombarded with the grumblings of influential people griping that they are not “allowed” to say what they really think, these days. Because of wokeness, and witch hunts, and things like that. What do they mean when they argue that they are not “allowed” to say something? Do they mean that they might be snatched by government agents and deported for writing a humanitarian op-ed in a student newspaper? No. What they mean, usually, is that they hold opinions that many people would find objectionable and if they say those opinions out loud people will get mad at them. In many cases, they also hold prestigious positions at media or business or academic institutions that claim to have some anodyne progressive values, and because their objectionable ideas are objectionable in the specific sense of “being some variety of bigotry,” their colleagues at those institutions would be mad at them, making their lives unpleasant. (It is darkly funny that, in the years that all of these people have been complaining about the woke censorship they are suffering, the people who have actually suffered the most professional retaliation for voicing their beliefs have been those who spoke out for the human rights of Palestinians. That has proven to be far more dangerous to one’s livelihood than being a bigot.)

It is important to notice the fact that, in truth, all of these whining people very much are allowed to say what they think. They sure can. No one is stopping them. What they are really objecting to is not censorship, but rather the honest reactions that their honest ideas will elicit. In other words, they cannot handle The Discourse. They are not equipped to participate in the Ideas industry. They are unable to carry the burden of telling the truth as they see it. This is fine, if you’re a regular person; no one is obligated to get yelled at for their beliefs. But it is not fine if you are someone—a writer, a leader, an intellectual influencer of the public—who is supposed to be pushing ideas. Those people must either say what they believe, change what they believe, or accept the fact that they are intellectual cowards.

These are the things that I thought last night when I read Ben Smith’s Semafor story about the many exclusive group chats, full of pundits and quasi-journalists and Substack writers and Silicon Valley business titans and political activists, that have served as private petri dishes of reactionary thinking since the start of the pandemic. It is a juicy story, replete with tales of the wounded signatories of the infamous Harper’s Letter forming and reforming little Signal chat groups where they could hold masturbatory agreement sessions with Marc Andreesen and Mark Cuban and similar tech gurus who fancy themselves masters of the nation’s future. Over and over again, participants in these chats explain that they were places where they could speak more openly than they would in public. “People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media,” goes one typical comment from an entrepreneur, “and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone.” It’s not just the businessmen— “Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens,” agrees one popular blog thinkfluencer, who presumably is not giving his public readers his important or interesting stuff.

I used to write for Gawker. The founding premise of Gawker can be described as, “All the stuff these group chat people said is fucking poisonous.” Nick Denton often told the legend of Gawker by saying that when he was a reporter, all the reporters would go to the bar after work and talk about the real stories, the ones that had not made it into the official stories that went in the paper. He thought the public should get the real stories too. Hence Gawker. There is a lot to criticize about Gawker, but this premise is one that the site generally tried to adhere to. It was not a high-minded publication, and we don’t need to pretend that most of its work was fancy or charitable, but I do think of that premise as a kind of high-minded ideal: We will do our best to say what we actually think.

Sometimes you say what you think, and guess what happens? People get mad. People yell at you. Yes. That goes with the territory. I will put the = hate mail and death threats and angry internet comments that I received during my Gawker years up against anyone’s. And, hey: that’s the fucking job. Whether you write for Gawker or Substack or the New York Times or Harper’s—or whether you are a CEO or tech visionary or a venture capitalist who goes to the Aspen Ideas festival and has a bazillion Twitter followers—the only requirement of the job is to speak your mind honestly. Because, because, by asking the public to listen to you, you are telling the public that they will be getting, as best as you can manage it, your truest ideas. We ask people to give us their attention, and their time, and in turn we give them our honest thoughts. When you are operating in this world and you stop giving people your honest thoughts, you begin ripping people off.

Feel free to hide your honest thoughts in private group chats if you like. Rather than speaking forthrightly, retreat into a little hole where you can stage manage and coordinate the rollout of soft versions of your unpopular ideas in friendly forums. But if you do, don’t pretend that you are a member in good standing of the (absurd, enraging, pompous, but ultimately socially valuable) Ideas industry. Say what you think, cowards! Or stop pretending that your beliefs are important enough for other people to care about in the first place."]]></description>
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    <title>What Spotify Is Really Costing Us | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-06T04:36:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love."

...

"Reading “Mood Machine,” I began to regard Spotify as an allegory for life this year—this feeling that everything has never been so convenient, or so utterly precarious. I’d seldom considered the speed at which food or merchandise is delivered to my house to be a problem that required a solution. But we acclimate to the new normal very quickly; that is why it’s hard to imagine an alternative to Spotify. Rival streaming services like Apple Music deliver slightly better royalties to artists, yet decamping from Spotify feels a bit like leaving Twitter for Bluesky in that you haven’t fully removed yourself from the problem. Digital marketplaces such as Bandcamp and Nina offer models for directly supporting artists, but their catalogues seem niche by comparison.

In the past few years, artists have been using the occasion of Spotify’s Wrapped to share how little they were paid for the year’s streams. The United Musicians and Allied Workers, a music-industry trade union, was formed in 2020 in part to lobby on behalf of those most affected by the large-scale changes of the past decade. Four years later, Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act, which would create a fund to pay artists a minimum of a penny per stream. With a royalty rate at around half a cent—slightly more than Spotify pays—it would take more than four hundred and eighty thousand streams per month to make the equivalent of a fifteen-dollar-an-hour job. But the bill hasn’t made any legislative playlists.

Earlier this year, responding to questions about Spotify’s effect on working musicians, Ek compared the music industry to professional sports: “If you take football, it’s played by hundreds of millions of people around the world. But there’s a very, very small number of people that can live off playing soccer full time.” The Internet was supposed to free artists from the monoculture, providing the conditions for music to circulate in a democratic, decentralized way. To some extent, this has happened: we have easy access to more novelty and obscure sounds than ever before. But we also have data-verified imperatives around song structure and how to keep listeners hooked, and that has created more pressure to craft aggressively catchy intros and to make songs with maximum “replay value.” Before, it was impossible to know how many times you listened to your favorite song; what mattered was that you’d chosen to buy it and bring it into your home. What we have now is a perverse, frictionless vision for art, where a song stays on repeat not because it’s our new favorite but because it’s just pleasant enough to ignore. The most meaningful songs of my life, though, aren’t always ones I can listen to over and over. They’re there when I need them.

Pelly writes of some artists, in search of viral fame, who surreptitiously use social media to effectively beta test melodies and motifs, basically putting together songs via crowdsourcing. Artists have always fretted about the pressure to conform, but the data-driven, music-as-content era feels different. “You are a Spotify employee at that point,” Daniel Lopatin, who makes abstract electronic music as Oneohtrix Point Never, told Pelly. “If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what is the music that you’re not making? What does the music you’re not making sound like?” Listeners might wonder something similar. What does the music we’re not hearing sound like?"]]></description>
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    <title>Why does this forest look like a fingerprint? - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-10T03:09:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cndkF7bX3M</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up finding something much bigger.

Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio de Polanco. From the ground, it's not particularly notable. But from above, the view is mind-boggling: Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center. Together, they look remarkably like a human fingerprint.  

When we first saw this forest in a Reddit post, we were fascinated. Why had the trees been arranged in this shape? Who planted them there? And why — when you zoom out on satellite view — was the entire country of Uruguay covered in similar-looking forests? To answer that question, we went straight to the source: interviewing locals, experts, and people whose lives have been shaped by a transformed landscape and economy.

Further reading:

Read the text of the original “forestry law”: https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/15939-1987

Read some of Alexandra’s work on afforestation and wildlife: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112721000268

Eilís O’Neill has a great feature in the Nation on Uruguay’s forestry industry: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/when-planting-trees-hurts-the-environment/

More stories about residents affected by the railway construction: https://yle.fi/a/3-11756418 "]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-04-17T16:16:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why eliminating the unpredictable leads to unintended consequences."

...

"Thus my next two theses: Mechanistic illiberalism seeks to create a monoculture; and Any attempt to create a monoculture is necessarily self-defeating.

This may seem to return us to the melancholy reflection of Levi-Strauss: “Social life consists in destroying that which gives it its savour.” But if my analogy between biological and social ecology holds, Oliver Rackham gives us reason to hope.

In Woodlands, Rackham describes his thoughts and feelings during that period in which the mechanistic plantation imperative dominated—the period he refers to as “the Locust Years.” During those years, he writes, “ecologists like myself wrote off about 40% by area of ancient woodland as irretrievably lost to replanting: we accepted the foresters’ claims to have killed off the trees, and shook our heads at the decline of plant life as the planted trees closed in.” But wait: “As time went on, we grew less pessimistic. Many woods were not so easily destroyed; the planted trees declined and native trees returned.” Drought or flood or pest invasion killed off trees that then became food for all kinds of flora and fauna. One result of this was that the various Forestry Commissions gave up on some of their plantations and sold them. These were occasionally purchased by wildlife trusts and other conservation organizations that allowed the woodlands to return to a more natural state. In many cases, the very species with which foresters had once filled plantations, only to see them decline or even die, ended up thriving in the midst of more ecologically complex and varied environments.

Thus my final thesis: Complex, organic ecosystems—whether biological or social—are far harder to kill off than the mechanized makers of monocultures think. And if they could learn to think ecologically, the mechanizers would take comfort in that."]]></description>
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    <title>We Need To Rewild The Internet</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-17T16:14:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists."

[See also:
https://blog.ayjay.org/rewilding-2/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-21T16:42:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify"

...

"Pursuing Instagrammability is a trap: the fast growth that comes with adopting a recognisable template, whether for a physical space or purely digital content, gives way to the daily grind of keeping up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm – which hashtags, memes or formats need to be followed. Digital platforms take away agency from the business owners, pressuring them to follow in lockstep rather than pursue their own creative whims. There’s a risk as well in hewing too closely to trends. If a trope becomes stale, the algorithmic audiences won’t engage with it, either. That’s why the perfect generic coffee shop design keeps changing slightly, adding more potted plants or taking a few away. In the algorithmic feed, timing is everything.

The other strategy is to remain consistent, not worrying about trends or engagement and simply sticking to what you know best – staying authentic to a personal ethos or brand identity in the deepest sense. In a way, coffee shops are physical filtering algorithms, too: they sort people based on their preferences, quietly attracting a particular crowd and repelling others by their design and menu choices. That kind of community formation might be more important in the long run than attaining perfect latte art and collecting Instagram followers. That is ultimately what Anca Ungureanu was trying to do in Bucharest. “We are a coffee shop where you can meet people like you, people that have interests like you,” she said. Her comment made me think that a certain amount of homogeneity might be an unavoidable consequence of algorithmic globalisation, simply because so many like-minded people are now moving through the same physical spaces, influenced by the same digital platforms. The sameness has a way of compounding."]]></description>
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    <title>COMPOST [Issue 2]</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-23T22:33:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://two.compost.digital/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As dominant platforms continue to construct an unimaginative reality of sleekness, convenience, and extraction, we wonder: How do we Inoculate networks with our consideration and attention, against the flattening, homogenizing forces of the internet?

This second issue of COMPOST magazine takes a step back; widening our scope and probing how we shape digital networks and how they shape us back."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://two.compost.digital/uncivilizing-digital-territories/">
    <title>COMPOST Issue 02: Uncivilizing Digital Territories by Luandro</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-23T22:30:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://two.compost.digital/uncivilizing-digital-territories/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“There’s something very wrong with status-quo culture, starting with the fact that such a thing exists in the first place. How has a culture that directly conflicts with the very essence of being human—being part of planet Earth—become the default? Don’t worry, I won’t attempt to explore the history of patriarchy, the state, or capitalism. The fact is that this system has colonized most of humanity through tools that serve the centralization of power. That might be a very natural thing for animals such as ourselves, but it doesn’t really contribute much to gender and cultural diversity, the rest of the planet, survival, or quality of life, does it?

It’s tempting to think that it’s always been like this: One culture to control them all. But it’s taken thousands of years of colonization for civilizations to develop themselves into this global coercion machine.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1200166974292140033">
    <title>Dr Sarah Taber on Twitter: &quot;it's happening folks time to talk about agrarianism in the United Federation of Planets send tweet&quot; / Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-29T20:50:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1200166974292140033</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1200166974292140033.html?refreshed=1575055374 ]

“it’s happening folks

time to talk about agrarianism in the United Federation of Planets send tweet 

Ok so first off there are little nods to agrarianism- the idea that farming is the ideal lifestyle, and that there are “rural values” that are both different from those of urban areas and also inherently better- all over in Star Trek. 

Who’s the smartest person on Starfleet Academy campus?

Boothby the gardener.

Giving the Federation a gardener for its moral guidance is an aesthetic choice. It says “this might be sci-fi where we’ve eliminated survival labor, but somehow we’re still down to earth.”

Gardeners are great, but I had this job for a while and let me just say we are also subject to moral foibles.

I would live for a sci fi universe where space captains get their moral guidance from plumbers. “Tell us what to do when the shit hits the fan, pipe daddy” they say.
 
Ok I’m actually gonna digress on plumbing for a minute

Plumbing is arguably MORE key to life support than farming, esp on a starship. But in the Star Trek universe it’s treated like a joke. This is a reflection on real life where farming’s revered but sanitation is unspeakable. 

Anyway back to agrarianism in Star Trek

Captain Kirk is from Iowa because that tells us he is down-to-earth. Like, a REAL man. It’s v important to the theme of TOS that Kirk is the Most Authentic Guy Ever, & Iowa is a symbol of authenticity (see also: US presidential primaries). 

Let’s look at some pics from the reboot. Kirk was born in 2233, so this car chase takes place around 2240-2245.

While y’all were watching the FX I was checking out the cornfields and let me tell you, THE IMPLICATIONS ARE STAGGERING

[annotated image from show]

*also this corn is weird, it’s short but already tasseling

chalk it up to future superdwarf varieties idk 

1) Iowa is still dominated by corn monoculture in 2240. The scene where Kirk motorcycles to the Enterprise being built IN A CORNFIELD (0:25:00, iTunes won’t let me screenshot) clearly shows straight rows w no intercrop, confirming corn monoculture still in place in 2250-2255. 

2) Corn monoculture in the 2250s implies we haven’t figured out any better way to do it, which is kind of a bummer. The current corn/soybeans regime feels eternal & inevitable, but it’s only been around for about 100 years. “How did the soybean become such a common crop in the U.S.?” https://www.agprofessional.com/article/how-did-soybean-become-such-common-crop-us

3) Corn monoculture implies bulk markets for starch, fuel, alcohol, &/or livestock, in a Federation where these needs are theoretically met by replicator & advanced engines. Not only is corn a platform @SwiftOnSecurity, it’s still a platform in the 2250s.

WHEN WILL THE LIES STOP 

3) Small sample size (we only have a couple shots of 2250s Iowa farm country), but no soybeans are seen. Where did they go? Do we just … not need to eat protein or rotate crops anymore? 

4) Corn pollen is sterile above ~95°F. Small rises in average global temperature may keep midwest corn from setting a crop.

Corn in 2250s Iowa implies either climate change has been reversed (good if true), or the Federation pays farmers to grow Potemkin crops for the aesthetic. 

5) Midwestern corn monoculture is aided by a private property-based land tenure system. (Corn monoculture can exist *without* private land ownership, but in the event of a different land tenure system, other cropping methods are more likely to emerge.) 

This implies that while the Federation is a moneyless society, it is NOT a property-less society. Land ownership is a zero-sum game. The existence of people who own real estate, especially large plots when population is high, implies the existence of haves & have-nots. 

In short, the agrarian realities of Federation-era Earth suggests cracks in its post-scarcity public façade. However, the agrarian politics of Iowa merely *suggest* cracks.

It’s the Picard family vineyard where shit gets downright dystopian. STAY TUNED 

*also does anybody have population estimates for Earth, either in the TOS/Kirk era or the Next Generation? I’m having no luck at all 

ok time to talk about the Picard wine estate

*deep breath* 

Slightly belated: just gonna put this out here for the folks in the replies suggesting “maybe folks keep farming in a post-scarcity economy because it’s ‘recreational’”

In “Family” (s4 e2), Captain Jean-Luc Picard goes home to recuperate after being turned into a Borg

and then you start to wonder why because that whole family situation is a shitshoooowwww 

Setup: the way it’s played is the older brother, Robert Picard, is the dutiful son who stayed home to tend the vines like their father. He’s grumpy about how Jean-Luc “left” and won’t stop bitching about it. 

HOWEVER. If you know anything about land tenure and how it’s passed on for multiple generations, this situation is even more messed up than it looks. 

If you divide up a family plot among all the kids (or even all the sons), within a few generations you wind up with tiny useless postage stamps that nobody can live on. That’s especially true after a few generations of post-scarcity population growth, e.g. TNG-era Earth. 

France traditionally dealt with this through primogeniture: the oldest son inherits the entire estate intact. Younger sons get a stipend if the the family’s very wealthy.

More usually, younger sons get bupkus. 

Under primogeniture, younger sons typically went into the military, priesthood, or (later once colonialism got underway) maritime trade. Those were the only institutions that had space for them. The core economic, political, & social power structure- land ownership- didn’t. 

Some young sons added a martlet (modified swift or martin) to their family crest. It had feathers instead of feet because they believed these birds never land. It represented how the crest’s owner would spend their life wandering to satisfy a shitty land inheritance system. [image]

The fact that Picard’s extremely French family still has an estate at all in 2367 heavily implies they’ve been using primogeniture. 

Jean-Luc Picard leaving home to join Starfleet fits the younger-son-in-a-primogeniture-family to a T. He left home to join an exploratory/military/semi-priesthood-y force complete with livery and never being able to start a family, much to his regret. 

Which makes his older, estate-inheriting brother Robert’s constant bitching about “whaaa you worked hard and left us” EVEN MORE HORRIFYING THAN IT LOOKS. [GIF]

This also drags up all kinds of systemic questions about how post-scarcity Star Trek Earth *works.*

Private land ownership appears to be alive & well.

Per @joeinformatico: why do the Picards own a lil slice of France, but Sisko’s dad only has a 2-story building in New Orleans? 

This implies ongoing wealth inequality- of a potentially very serious degree- in Federation-era Earth.

Nobody ever mentions Robert Picard having a day job. He just twiddles around FEELING the vines (not the most responsible use of time for an estate owner) and day drinks. 

He makes his wife do the cooking & won’t let her get a replicator.

Perhaps most appalling, his vineyard’s still using furrow irrigation. That’s when you run water down a ditch between rows. Super simple, but super wasteful. Lots of water soaks down past roots or evaporates.

[annotated image from show]

Hahaha and they pass off this caustic, day-drinking, controlling train wreck of a man as a “guardian of tradition”

agrarian values my ass, he’s just a jerk. it happens 
Anyway, irrigation-wise, 3 things to consider:

1) grapes tend to prefer dry regions (not much water available period)

2) Earth’s population is 8 billion-ish by 2367

3) more efficient irrigation methods like microjet are already the norm in many/most wine regions in 2019. 

Who the hell ARE the Picards!? They can command so much fresh water*, they’re just squirting it around. Look at how many gotdang weeds are between their grape rows. That’s what happens when you furrow irrigate, and they don’t even care.

Conclusion: the Picards are water barons 

*Even in Star Trek, you CANNOT just make more fresh water through desalination. That process leaves behind a concentrated brine. It sinks & kills the shit out of whatever’s living on the ocean floor. Theoretically you could transport the brine away … to kill someplace else. 

So if one wants to just wave plentiful fresh water away w “desalination,” that means there are giant toxic dumps of brine somewhere. It’s not very punk rock. Not very Federation. tl;dr water is a limited resource & the Picards are using it to mud wrestle out their issues 🤔 

The picture painted here is one where hereditary wealth is still the rule, & the consequences are pretty grim for most people involved. Land & water are subject to the wealthy’s whims. Women in landed families have limited power. We don’t even know how the villagers are doing. 

Systemic questions abound. Who owns the Iowa corn estates? (assuming they’re still grow corn by TNG … but given replicators need a feedstock, that’s prob still corn.)

Where do corn farms get their operating funds? It may be post-money, but it’s not post-resource allocation. 

Given that 1) everyone seems to have basic needs met but 2) private land ownership is still alive & well, this implies the Star Trek economy is “fully automated luxury gay space communism” in the streets,

“UBI gone horribly wrong neofeudal patronage nightmare” in the sheets 

This is all a very silly exercise. But it’s good practice for looking critically at how a society portrays itself vs what’s really going on, especially re: agriculture.

It’s also a really good thought experiment for how “fundamental needs are met” =/= justice or sustainability. 

Really not entertaining any comments about how futuristic technology can make unlimited fresh water.

Y’all are really proposing they’re 1) desalinating seawater at great expense and 2) TRANSPORTING THE BRINE OUT OF EARTH’S GRAVITY WELL INTO THE SUN

so a couple guys can mud-wrestle & irrigate so badly that the weeds are taking over? 

At the end of the day, that’s still kind of a giant red flag that the Federation has a SERIOUS problem with telling rich people “no” 

getting some questions on “wait, if different kinds of property regimes encourage different kinds of farming/land management, what does that mean in a futuristic Star Trek context?”

so glad you asked

[points back to this part of the thread:

“5) Midwestern corn monoculture is aided by a private property-based land tenure system. (Corn monoculture can exist *without* private land ownership, but in the event of a different land tenure system, other cropping methods are more likely to emerge.)”]

The clearest examples we have are the Americas before colonization. We have well-documented forms of land mgmt that supported large populations for centuries/millennia at a time.*

*if you think you wanna bicker about this, scroll to the end of the thread. 

There are a legion of other ways of farming & managing land for food & resources besides industrial monoculture.

Agroforestry

Prairie + patchy farms

Fire-managed forest

Chinampas & other managed wetlands

One could go on. Western row crops are a very small subset of farming. 

We got a lot of folks proposing that maybe Star Trek folks don’t NEED to farm, they just do it for cultural preservation. The land is all publicly owned & some people are paid to steward it

My question is if that’s the case, WHY IS THE THING WE’RE PRESERVING … FRICKIN ROW CROPS 

If there’s the technology & limitless resources to basically terraform Earth into a nice garden and farm just for funzies

why not do chinampas?

Why not bring back old-school Tenochtitlan? Since we’re already terraforming for tradition’s sake. 

Iowa should be prairie and bison, not cornfields*.

*Indigenous land management involved a lot of cornfields, including BIG cornfields. (early Europ. observers in Shawnee territory/Ohio Valley mentioned “cornfields as far as the eye can see,” so at least 6 square miles) 

But that’s still patches of corn within a larger, dominant prairie+herds situation. Which is not how it’s being presented. It’s very much an IOWA = CORN aesthetic rather than IOWA = WATCH OUT FOR BISON 

As far as we can tell, the Amazon is dotted with ancient cities.

And, the Amazon rainforest is not entirely natural. A lot of the trees in it show marks of domestication. Trees are so long lived that 500 years after those cities are gone, the forest still has their fingerprints. 

The Amazon we know today is the bones of an ancient orchard. “The Amazon Rainforest Was Profoundly Changed by Ancient Humans: The region’s ecology is a product of 8,000 years of indigenous agriculture.” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-clear-that-ancient-humans-helped-enrich-the-amazon/518439/

Vineyards schmineyards- if we’re talking a sci fi future where we carefully preserve Earth’s land-based heritage, why not support Amazonian peoples doing THAT.
 
The Klamath River Valley- deep northern CA & southern OR- used to be a rich food garden full of acorns, salmon, berries, and bulbs, tended by carefully managed fires. The Karuk, Yurok, Hoopa, & other local tribes were among the wealthiest people on Earth.

Now it’s a food desert. 

The US declared it “public land,” turned it into a timber plantation, and made it a CRIME for Native people to use fire.

Then we dammed the Klamath 4 times in the 1960s (for a measly total of 150 MW) and wrecked the 3rd-largest salmon run on the entire west coast. 

Sugar, salty, starch, greasy colonial food had already been available in the Valley for 100+ years by that time thanks to gold prospectors & associated trade.

But it was the end of the salmon runs that did the local people in. There was nothing left to eat BUT colonial food. 

Local tribes’ diabetes rates began to spike in the ’70s. The Karuk were able to demonstrate that colonial land management has made them sick, costing California up to $20M a year just in health care alone. https://pages.uoregon.edu/norgaard/pdf/Effects-Altered-Diet-Karuk-Norgaard-2005.pdf

This led to, among other things, a court victory where the US federal gov’t finally acknowledged that destroying a thriving food system for 150 piddly MW of hydro power makes no sense.

The dams are to be dismantled in 2020.

“Klamath Dam Removal on Track for 2020: After years of lawsuits, protests, stalled legislation, we can celebrate a new path toward dam removal which means improved conditions for salmon in the Klamath River.” http://www.klamathriver.org/klamath-dam-removal-on-track-for-2020/

Imagine if mainstream sci fi showed us THOSE kinds of futures.

Not a future where Native people are canonically leaving Earth because even though folks who wanna colonize things have ALL OF SPACE now, they still won’t leave Earth alone. [GIF]

Also re the questions about “What if Earth’s land is all publicly owned by then & let out to farm families ~for cultural preservation~?”

We already do that exact thing & it’s such a hot mess LOL 

The main form of that is the BLM grazing lease program.

It’s basically the same deal as the Klamath timber plantation. Seize land from Indigenous people who ran it well, call it “public” land, and lease it out for private profit.

“43 CFR § 4130.2 - Grazing permits or leases.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/43/4130.2

[map of predominant land use in US]

This BLM grazing program is one of the main reasons cattle pasture is the US’s single largest land bloc. It’s millions of acres of public land “leased” to private ranchers in sweetheart deals way, WAY below market value for grazing land. 

The public benefit in this questionable. That’s especially if you compare it with the public good in Indigenous land management, which is really really good at 2 things: growing food & preventing wildfires. 

Oh & remember these dipshits? The Cliven Bundy posse?

The reason they’re mad at the federal gov’t: they think paying ANY MONEY AT ALL to use BLM land is too much.

They figure, using public land at a steep discount isn’t enough. These special bois think they deserve it for free.

[image]

Cliven Bundy: your tax dollars at work

•

Anyway, that’s why “public land ownership and paying people to farm for ~cultural reasons~” is not futuristic utopia Star Trek thing to do.

We already do it and it’s a hot mess lmao 

*”but sometimes droughts caused population collapses & most American megafauna went extinct”

wow wait till you hear what minor climate variations did to medieval Europe Europe. also, good luck hunting Ice Age megafauna in Germany nowadays. oh wait. it’s all extinct 

it’s just funny to me how “most American megafauna is extinct” is used as an excuse to view Indigenous Americans as inferior

meanwhile “woolly rhinos, aurochs, lions, & mammoths all disappeared from Europe millennia ago” never comes up when we’re judging European cultures 

anyway we’re pretty far afield from Star Trek now

but yeah, when it comes to visualizing long-term land stewardship, colonial culture has a long way to go & that definitely shows in how we’re crafting sci fi visions of the future

the end 

ps. if you want to check out Indigenous restoration of the Klamath foodshed in real time, go follow @akihsara : )”]]></description>
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    <title>Why we have grass lawns - Curbed</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-01T15:50:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.curbed.com/2019/3/13/18262285/mcmansion-hell-kate-wagner-lawn-care-mowing</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With the invention of mechanical mowing, the lawn no longer required a small army of groundskeepers, and the once-unattainable lawn of the moneyed classes became available to the middle classes, which were now buying and building homes along streetcar lines outside of the city, in the first suburbs. The density of these suburbs relative to their later counterparts kept these lawns rather small, and the largest lawns tended to belong to those with large houses, keeping the big, grassy expanse aspirational.

With the massive car-based sprawl of the postwar era, the modern grassy, treeless lawn came into its own. The lawn, at this point, became part of American suburban culture: white and middle class, inextricable from the mundanities of conventional nuclear family life and the act of childrearing. Cold War paranoia placed a larger emphasis on surveillance in child-rearing, and the fenced-in, treeless backyard made it easier for parents to keep a continuous, watchful eye on their children.

Perhaps the most pervasive myth of the lawn is the oft-touted idea that lawns and fenced-in, grassy backyards are somehow safer or better for the activities of children than any alternative. This belief comes from a place of fear and isolationism. It subtly admonishes the decisions of non-suburban parents and erases the experiences of those children who grow up in the city or in rural areas. The idea that the woods or the city are unsafe for children is silly, as children have grown up in these environments for as long as people have lived in them. Rather than equipping children with the knowledge they need to be independent and adaptable to these environments, the de facto logic has been to eliminate all risk by only allowing children to play in a closed-off patch of turf grass.

Urban children may not have lawns, but they have public parks where they interact with other children from diverse backgrounds. Children (myself included) who grow up in rural places or near or in the woods are raised with information about the hazards of such environments and are taught the skills necessary to be self sufficient, such as plant and animal identification, navigation, first aid, and outdoor preparedness. The idea that children need a lawn, a cultural invention of the postwar era, is absurd.

Lawn care and horticulture are powerful industries whose future profits rely on the endurance of these myths and the persistent advance of sprawl. Many folks who enjoy the feeling of tending to land that the lawn gives them might scowl at me. The good news for people reading this and saying “what can I do?” is that wonderful alternatives to lawns are gaining momentum.

In desert climates, the most absurd places to have a lawn, xeriscaping—cultivating yards using native plants that require little irrigation—is becoming more and more popular because it saves time and resources. For others, taking space away from lawns and giving it to pollinator gardens, edible gardens, and vegetable beds, as well as gardening only with native plants that require much less fuss to keep alive, are great alternatives to the tyranny of the lawn, alternatives that not only save time, effort, resources, and money, but are good for the environment as well. Getting rid of turf grass and replacing it with native grasses, prairie, or whatever natural ground cover happens to be inherent to the place you live and that doesn’t require fertilization, pesticide use, or mowing is a great start. Allow native trees to grow, remove any invasive plants (sorry, folks, that means English ivy) from your yard, and the results will soon bear fruit, whether literally or figuratively, through the return of songbirds and pollinators to your outdoor space.

If you’re at all concerned about climate change and what you can do to help make the world a more habitable place for the millions of plants, animals, and people that live here, start by getting rid of your turf grass."]]></description>
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    <title>Perennial Design, by Wilson Miner · Issue 4 · The Manual</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The modern practice of agriculture is based on a system of annual monoculture because it’s what gets results. Because the plants have no long-term systems to support, all their energy goes toward producing grains, which means bigger harvests. By planting huge fields with only one crop, the large commercial operations, where most of our food is produced, can operate as efficiently as possible. Year over year, annual monoculture feeds the most people the most efficiently. It’s also completely, transparently, inherently unsustainable.

We can’t afford to follow the same model. We’re beginning to recognize our own monocultures as the short-lived efficiencies we extracted from them begin to unravel. The premise that we can design for a manageable number of combinations of screen sizes, platforms, contexts, and devices is quickly eroding. The diversity of variables in our ever-changing digital environment demand thoughtful systems designed around principles durable enough to outlast increasingly brief cycles of obsolescence.

When we start with the assumption that optimizing for rapid, unbounded growth is a goal, we immediately narrow the possibility space. There are only so many choices we can make that will get us there. The same choices that made annual monoculture and the shopping mall the most efficient engines for short-term growth and profit are the same qualities that made them unsustainable in the long term."

[via http://tinyletter.com/intriguingthings/letters/5-intriguing-things-43
via http://bettyann.tumblr.com/post/74218411367 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Chris Christie’s New Jersey Is Everything That’s Wrong With America - James Howard Kunstler - POLITICO Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-16T01:33:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These adjustments all hinge on the re-localization and downscaling of the major activities that add up to civilized life: we have to grow more of our food closer to home (as oil-based agri-business flounders); we have to move out of failing suburbia into more compact neighborhoods and towns; we have to prepare for the difficult, necessary contraction of our overgrown giant urban metroplexes (New York City in particular); we have to re-organize commerce away from the monocultures of car-dependent big box corporate despotism and rebuild resilient Main Street infrastructures of trade, and we have to do all these things with a kind of conscious and deliberate earnestness that amounts to a national sense of purpose—something sorely absent in these baleful days of Kardashians, universal obesity and comprehensive American anomie. In short, we have to become a lot less like New Jersey."]]></description>
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    <title>Matt Hern &quot;Possibility in the Face of Probability&quot;</title>
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    <link>https://vimeo.com/56703253</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[References Daniel Grego in Milwaukee: http://transcenterforyouth.org/grego.html ]]]></description>
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    <title>Art Rant #1 (with tweets) · tezcatlipoca · Storify</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-05T01:49:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://storify.com/tezcatlipoca/art-rant-1</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["there will always be artists and good art, but the mono culture provided a shared "enemy," some common ground and a vocabulary" — https://twitter.com/tezcatlipoca/status/265090655720718336

"I think I want a "show and tell…" a distilled collection of contemporary things people really love and why." — https://twitter.com/tezcatlipoca/status/265099091153928192

"This thought is drifting from original now, but everyone has a favorite song, lyrics that make them cry... How can we make work like that? Not just "oh cool, another arduino demo" … I WANT TO MAKE MY AUDIENCE WEEP." — https://twitter.com/tezcatlipoca/status/265094066310615040 + https://twitter.com/tezcatlipoca/status/265094216605130753 + https://twitter.com/tezcatlipoca/status/265094257549914113

"I actually think novels are way better than music at being meaningful, yet emotional, and building communities." — https://twitter.com/debcha/status/265096111939792896]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["William Gibson‘s writing is timeless. For mortals, conquering time is a Quixotic endeavor, only imaginable with the aid of good religion, better hallucinogens or great science fiction.

Today(?), Mr. Gibson walks into The High Bar and joins me to raise a toast to and raise the bar for… atemporality. Will time stand still and if so, what impact will it have on our memories, intimate or communal?

The legendary author (Neuromancer; Pattern Recognition) discusses his childhood, his craft and his hope for a future he has never truly predicted, even within the pages of his recent collection of articles and essays, Distrust That Particular Flavor."]]></description>
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    <link>http://iam.peteashton.com/flaneurism-shouldnt-be-easy/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When you think about it, relying on the likes of Google, YouTube, Facebook et al stand up for the niche and the curious is pretty naive. Where their interests coincide they will side with the mainstream, and those interests will coincide more and more. We can’t rely on large Internet companies to look after this stuff – Yahoo’s half-arsed custody of Flickr should have taught us that. If we’re going to have an infrastructure that enables the spirit of the cyberflaneur to thrive we’re going to have to build and maintain it ourselves, above and beyond the financial blinkers of the mainstream.

One of the most surprising things about the Internet is how people think there’s a single monolithic culture. There used to be, back when access was difficult and determined by circumstance. But it’s not like that now. The Internet is for everything and everyone, which means it’s like everything else, prone to mediocrity and abuses of power…"

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    <title>Caterina.net » Blog Archive » Notes from Monoculture</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>caterinafake 2012 book monoculture economics culture slow via:Preoccupations</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Our education systems, seeking efficiency through standardization and conformity end up creating students who, just like their agricultural counterparts, are no longer well-adapted to their environment. Michael Pollan reminds us that, "Most of the efficiencies in an industrial system are achieved through simplification: doing lots of the same thing over and over." Like corn planted in a monoculture, removed from the diversity that protects it, or cattle fed an unnatural diet of corn, students today are fed a standardized diet of procedures and reproducible facts. This educational monoculture does nothing to nourish minds that have evolved to seek diversity, novelty and stimulation."
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