Bunker as a metaphor 0 ▲ Hamish Campbell 1 hour ago · 5 min read1002 words · Culture · hide · 0 comments There is something revealing about the way powerful people talk about our future, when they imagine crisis, they imagine their escape. A luxury bunker, fortress border, a private city, a rocket or an #AI cloud. A place for the self chosen few to survive while everyone else is left outside to die. This is the “logic” of the #deathcult we all worship, if the world is breaking, protect yourself rather than repair the world. It should be obverse to us that this is is not really any actual plan for the future, its just more head down worship, an admission that this class have stopped believing in any thing at all. But, yes they hid this, they still tend to tell a story, the shiny version of this story is always the same, out of catastrophe comes a golden city, the old world burns, the rubble is cleared, and the self selecting few build something beautiful on top of it. We have heard this story for thousands of years, apocalypse, judgement, Armageddon, collapse, then purification for… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.