Every successful sales pitch at Land Forces, every business card exchanging hands at the official networking events, means more weapons in the hands of those who can always justify their use.
Loneliness has become a feature of modernity, a hallmark of late capitalism, woven into the technologies and built environments that form the architecture of our lives.
The analysis trumpeted by Attenborough and other Malthusian environmentalists is flawed because it fails to identify the true cause of environmental collapse: capitalism.
We can envision and create systems that do not isolate, abandon, and imprison people. We can abolish a mindset, framed by the prison-industrial-complex mode of thinking, that economic, social, and political problems are solved through professionalised "services"