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This is a huge problem and I totally agree. 100%. There's a lot of depth to this. For example, there's a whole religion of Hegel behind the "Marx already knew that..." which is like Christians before Christ kind of stuff... In ecological discourse it gets particularly bad, which is why I wrote Humankind.

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Thanks. Humankind (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humankind-Solidarity-Non-Human-Timothy-Morton/dp/1786631326) provides my orientation here. I should have mentioned it more explicitly.

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Oh gosh not at all! I appreciate that you read it! But this is your own argument and I'm really enjoying hearing it.

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