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The author is associating highly controlled cultivation of greenery with highly authoritarian power, and a view of human life as a resource to be controlled. S
by yters 9y ago
The author is associating highly controlled cultivation of greenery with highly authoritarian power, and a view of human life as a resource to be controlled. Somewhat plausible: Microsoft is famously monopolistic, Apple has FoxConn, and oil fuels a whole lot of war. The wealth necessary to create such greenhouses largely comes from tech and oil.
- epistasis 9y agoIt's interesting, these types of associations based on vague connections have a really truthy feel to them. It's like a form of art that's meant to evoke a sense of truth in something that has little correspondence to the external world. I think there's something to appreciate there, as a type of performance, as long as one doesn't make decisions about the world that way.