Jupiter in Cancer & the myth of progress

We have internalized the imperative to conquer the future.

Part of the reason capitalism feels harder to escape than gravity is due to the way it has attached itself to the fundamental stories that help us to contextualize and process humanity and life and death. Capitalism has co-opted collective myths and reframed them as evidence of its own natural order. Like a cancer, it has attached itself to the very thing we use to define humanity, in order to proliferate and consume its host—our planet.