biodegradable bullets with seeds
example ·
retold in 3 talks
The US military sought proposals for bullets that biodegrade and contain plant seeds, so that bombing a country simultaneously makes it green. The weapon is its own environmental remedy.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“Imagine bombing a country to make it green. The same structure — the thing itself is the remedy against the threat it poses.”
“imagine bombing a country to make it green, full of plants, with no waste left on the ground.”
“imagine bomb a country and you can say we really want to make it green. we will just bomb it to make it green, full of plants with no waste left on the ground.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
the coincidence of opposites (coincidentia oppositorum)
×3
thing itself as remedy
×1
ideological fiasco
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Emilie Morin3Jamal Khashoggi1Russell Grigg1Ian Bostridge1Georges Bataille / Steve Bannon1Frank Fischbach1Mohammad Mosaddegh1Marcel Proust2
alongside works
Every retelling 3
The US military sought proposals for bullets that biodegrade and contain plant seeds, so that bombing a country simultaneously makes it green. The weapon is its own environmental remedy., illustrating thing itself as remedy,ideological inconsistency,coincidence of opposites
The US military requested proposals for biodegradable bullets loaded with seeds so bombed terrain would become fertile, the weapon itself remedies the environmental damage it causes., illustrating coincidence of opposites,ideological structure of capitalism
The US military sought proposals for bullets that biodegrade and contain seeds so that plants grow where they hit the ground, allowing one to 'bomb a country to make it green'., illustrating coincidence of opposites,ideology,ecology-climate