Jerome Roos: What They’re NOT Telling You About Our Global Crisis

[@Angel_Lopez10D10]

Very well explained. And absolutely true, all of it.

[@user-gz1hu5px1z]

Humanity is the patient. Evil depravity and greed is the disease.

[@cassie5344]

Good framing, good insights. Thank you.

[@d1m18]

Thank you for creating and sharing this. With your tool, is there any way to save and reuse filters?

[@DANELLMOTO]

UNRESOLVABLE

[@mrdeanvincent]

I prefer the term 'metacrisis', which to me suggests the many impending crises are connected by underlying causes.

[@matthewatwood207]

1 cause. People with no concience. They built, maintain, and exploit the system. They shirk regulations. They lobby for less regulation and more tax subsidies. They don't care about future generations or anyone else for that matter. They even increase the percentage of a___oles through heavy metal exposure, so there will be more sellouts and less dissidents.

[@garrenosborne9623]

Love the Hippocratic "Healing" Crisis" perspective & also not merely poly crisis....but Meta Crisis is better deeper term for our moment. I believe we will survive, many other species won't & haven't survived our moment, but we will....our wrong models wont

[@jcolwill]

My film on the conquest of the Americas since 1492 climaxes with the climate crisis. The imperialist system is certainly the root.

[@matthewatwood207]

Narcissism is the root. Everything they build (usually through forced labor and orher forms of exploitation) are just symptoms of those parasites.

[@A3Kr0n]

The real crisis is so many people like Jerome Roos sitting behind a monitor all day doing "data analysis", instead of picking up a shovel and doing some real work.

[@lorenam8028]

Says the troll behind his keyboard. Oh the irony... 😂

[@Nirv1006]

Reall insightful explanation of crisis. However, the things that he talked about, which he said have existed in firy the last 500 years is slightly incorrect. They have always existed, but it's just that their modern form has developed over the last 500 years.

[@evilryutaropro]

They have not always existed tho. Most of what we think about the human condition is only in a fraction of the history we have. It was prohibitively difficult for hunter-gatherers to enforce slavery or for previous empires to run surveillance states.

[@Nirv1006]

@@evilryutaropro I agree. What I meant is that structures to exploit or control others have always existed, in different forms obviously, depending on the time period. Even in hunter-gatherer communities, there were differences based on multiple factors, and how often for survival and lack of resources, communities would go to wars, etc. Well it's a heavy topic and difficult to summarize in comments.

[@TroelsNybo-j2t]

Mother Earth has a skin disease.

[@tauIrrydah]

Don't forget to add utilitarianism to that problem.

[@matthewatwood207]

How is utilitarianism a problem?

[@Irresistance]

So the society and civilization that's been built over the last 500 years... is that despite the exploitation/oppression... or because of it? How do you imagine a victimless world in which no unfair advantages are taken of others (as evaluated by those others; I don't imagine many oppressors routinely see themselves as evil/exploitative/etc.)

[@nioty626]

1. you can say that about any system, be slavery or feudalism that made civilisations that lasted for way longer 2. you cannot eliminate pain or suffering and the world is unfair, that is why we should work to make a better world instead of just acepting how it is, otherwise we would still be hunting with our hands and teeth 3. no dominant class see thenselfs as the opressors but as justified by divine right, blood heirtage, harder worker. They see themselfs as not a bad thing but a necessary, "those peasants would be degenerates without my guidance" "those niggers would be uncivilised animals without me" " these poor people would not be able to manage / I give they a job"

[@stephenconnolly1830]

The counterpoint to your scepticism can be checked against the historical record - that direct imperial colonialism didn't prevail, with few exceptions one of which is not looking to be sustainable in the long term. That only leaves the present neocolonial position which is also in the process of rejection with little prospect it too will last.

[@Irresistance]

Yeah but that does not make sense. Imperialism must have prevailed at least to some extent, otherwise it could not have done so much damage as is claimed, and certainly could not be the source of the vast ill-gained wealth extracted by its practitioners. Imperialism/Colonialism was actually extremely successful (if gaining power, wealth, resources and influence are things you want); no other system of... "national expansion" even came close. Mongolia is not and never has been a land of milk and honey, opulently enjoying the spoils of Genghis Khan's conquests and plunder. Arab/Muslim conquests did contribute *somewhat* to the overall wealth and prestige of the cultures fighting its battles... though not for very long. Colonial nations on the other hand *very much* enjoyed (and *still* enjoy to this day) the spoils and consequences of *their* colonial endeavors.

[@donHooligan]

@@Irresistance are you an Izz-Railey?

[@stephenconnolly1830]

@@Irresistance- actually you completely underestimate the Islamic influence on the West. Without the Qur'an there would be no renaissance, the basic judicial and political systems would be completely different. I don't think you can argue imperialism is "the most successful", simply because you are looking at a blip in time and downplaying other contenders. Your personal blinkers are obviously working as the West intended them to blinding aspects of the reality.

[@harleyed5052]

What are you people on... it amazes me how all these "thinkers"(?) can talk on&on with words that have no actual meaning, just imagery names of things that are supposed to be some picturesque reality(of somekind of ideal). What is capitalism? was it the time of Trade when people were bringing back Fabrics, Items, animals and foods of some distant land, which they had never seen before and brought real cultural curiosity and marvelled the beholder. Or is it the Industrial revolution in which we raised industry, by, subcontracting everything to be made cheaper over seas, and stole land to posses and place all the worlds resources on the world market, & to replace cheap products that would put out of work everyone in the country... remove them the possibility to compete, grow there own things and make essential thingsand there own Arts and Nature... While gaining absolute power over the population as they are rendered useless and become betail-Open mouths to feed and put in pens. I ask as if ancient egypt survived this long, they must have gotten something right for at least the first half of there history, and we sure see a lot of pictures of people bringing the most curious things to the land in their hirogrifs- such as elephant tusks, when it appears there is no elephants drawn in their Pyramids.. Biggest problem today is that people have no Absolute land rights and that money is based on Nothing- which gives Beurocrates and Corporations un imaginable power... (Atleast besides the one of Creativity) merchant routes and markets- Need to be free of overlords.. communication and technology need to loose there intellectual property patents, and than a true sharemarket in real projects can begin... Australia begging china to buy its lobsters and America enforcing that china buys 50billormill of American Agricultural goods is just a Bloody Joke.....

[@lydialatifabossi8781]

As long as human beings reject and disobey their Creator, there will be problems.

[@matthewatwood207]

Just safegaurd your weewee. God doesn't let anyone with a damaged one in. Dueteronomy 23 verse 1.