The epigraph...

[NNadir]

Within the techno-scientific set up that seizes the world, there is no longer the sovereign good, nor even the happiness of humanity, its well-being and comfort. Humans have and will have to live and die without comprehending what is happening, why it is happening and how it is happening

Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World.

The above is the epigraph of the book I'm currently reading:

The Elements of Power

By Nicolas Niarchos|The Elements of Power]

Subtitle:

A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

By Nicolas Niarchos

The title is a triple pun.

I have long been dubious of the concept of what we call "green" in the West is sustainable, and in so doing have become increasingly aware of the massive injustice associated with our wildly held, but clearly glib and deliberately obtuse denial of what this is all about.

I am a scientist, and I am very dependent on high technology, including the computer on which I now write, although on any scale of true power, my access is trivial. I have never heard of Kostas Axelos before reading the epigraph, and his works are not widely available in the common sources I use, but I think I should look into his work.

It would seem though, whether I like it or not, he is writing about me and the hundreds of millions of my peers.

The Elements of Power is a very contemporary book; it refers to the second term of the orange Pedophile, and the morally void Apartheid boy, the "richest" man on Earth, Musk.

It makes the ersatz expressions of "concern" about the origins of cobalt laughable.

Another literary quote, quite out of this context:

I guess I seem ungrateful
With my teeth sunk in the hand
That brings me things
I really can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here the critic...

-Joni Mitchell, For the Roses.

It is hard for one to look into the mirror and recognize that one is looking at a criminal by omission, the omission of whence all this "stuff" comes and the moral cost.

I need to access Axelos and put it on my reading list.

[cachukis]

1. As altruistic one might be, a little hedonism is a part of it.

Have to work with what got us here. Forward is the only choice.