Unrestrained capitalist growth is a form of destructive creation requiring humility to balance
Evidence
Nanabozho learned that in the duality of all things, he had a twin brother who was as committed to making imbalance as Nanabozho was dedicated to balance. That twin had learned the interplay of creation and destruction and rocked it like a boat on a choppy sea to keep people out of balance. He found that the arrogance of power could be used to unleash unlimited growth—an unrestrained, cancerous sort of creation that would lead to destruction. Nanabozho vowed to walk with humility in order to try to balance his twin’s arrogance. That too is the task of those who would walk in his footsteps. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 768
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to eco-justice framing of unlimited-growth economics as the root driver of environmental degradation. — connects to: Economic obsession with growth itself destroys the conditions that make prosperity possible — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 13; Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1094; Capitalism simultaneously destroys and expands human potential — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 639 (+1 more)
- SEED: Could frame an integrative essay around the twin-brother myth as an Indigenous economic critique of growth-at-any-cost capitalism.
Broader Connections
- Capitalism must be judged as both catastrophe and progress simultaneously
#expands(0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 154 - Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others
#expands(0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1094 - Capitalism simultaneously destroys and expands human potential
#expands(0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 639