Late to the party but I’d say something about this. Sure looks like folks are plenty aware we’ve been on a downward track for many decades and now it’s plain enough that folks are naming it “polycrisis” or “metacrisis”. Baked into the material conditions of life how such as it is, I don’t reckon folks want to see an END but rather see no brakes on this express elevator of combined existential threats. There is now a concentration of power such that it is so much toothpaste impossible to get back in the tube -failing awful violence or catastrophe. A divided, hopelessly propagandized culture that can never get on the same page for collective action. I hear friends talking about lifeboats and doing what one can as communities. Maybe that’s all we have left now.

Terrific really. He is for sure upholding the folk tradition in the spirit of Guthrie and Seeger.