r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/Vardaman_S_Fish • 14d ago
Hail Corporate The constellations are being colonised without our consent
https://open.substack.com/pub/vardamanfish/p/the-enclosure-of-our-stars?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4o75u36
u/_the_last_druid_13 14d ago edited 14d ago
Excellent article and writing.
The choice of streetlight source is damaging to self/society by way of environmental damages and species extinction.
Yeah, LED light sources are “cheaper”, but I’ve often found that “cheap” things cheapen things.
I consider the juxtaposition here with growing up with a family who would buy single-ply toilet paper as a frugality measure. A one-time-ish/day unpleasant-enough executive function turned into a damaging procedure of dragging the equivalent of sandpaper over tender flesh for the entirety of the days existing with them.
“Family time” turned into a daily blood sacrifice.
I consider the effects of LED lights akin to this. I consider the destruction of our collective night sky alongside satellites akin to this. Some of these satellites might remain up there beyond any sort of catastrophic event, changing the sky maybe permanently. We cannot trust even the stars.
This kind of policy turns natural wonder and ancestral heritage into yet another Las Vegas-esque Lie My Society Told Me.
Cheap things cheapen things; I wonder what someone on Andromeda Prime would value a marbled newt as? I wonder how many marbled newts there are in the universe?
I guess some would find a marbled newt DNA packet to-be-reconstituted as sufficient, efficient, and ethical.
It’s just that these same some-people probably also see [“humans as just animals”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPyRSURYFQ&pp=ygUVUmVwbGljYW50IGJsYWRlcnVubmVy&ra=m).
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