Applying ideas from Žižek’s discussions on overidentification, I perform the role of an economics educator and capitalist sympathizer who believes that we as a culture need both capitalism and nature, thus nature should do all that it can do to understand the needs of our current economic system. The absurdity of this gesture is meant to call attention to the way in which corporations, businesses, and those complicit have failed to acknowledge the damage caused by continuing to do business in such a careless way. Put bluntly, and to reiterate the absurdity, it is more likely that inanimate objects might learn about our economic systems, than our economists might learn about the environment.
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