politics

The tragedy of the commons is disproven by, y'know, the historical existence of the commons

Commons tend to function until you introduce an external market. When consequences hit you where you live and you're the only one eating the fish, you're incentivized to balance consumption with the environment's capability to produce. When there's a bottomless well of demand from people who don't live anywhere near where the exploitation is occurring, then stocks get overdrawn and systems start to break down.

The actual tragedy of the commons was the enclosures and evictions that dispossessed free people and destroyed the commons as their economic base.

language distortion, thought terminating cliches, etc, these are all little ideology compensating devices

the OG Sartre Quote:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

Man the first time I read the term "the tragedy of the commons" I thought it would be a) something smart or b) something poetic about the struggle of the common people, but no I got this bullshit instead.

Dissapointing.