Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Louisville GH | Judge: Grandpre
Because I could not stop for Death,
 He kindly stopped for me;
 The carriage held but just ourselves
 And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
 And I had put away
 My labour, and my leisure too,
 For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
 Their lessons scarcely done;
 We passed the fields of gazing grain,
 We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
 A swelling of the ground;
 The roof was scarcely visible,
 The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
 Feels shorter than the day
 I first surmised the horses' heads
 Were toward eternity.*

*Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for Death"

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/stop.html

from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Desire creates the illusion of the self and the suffering that defines the human condition -~-- to break down our separation, we must cease conceiving of ourselves as isolated individuals and groups in competition with one another

DOLLIMORE 1998 (Jonathan Dollimore 1998 (Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, p 54-56.)

Siddhartha Gautama (560-477 BC) was a prince who, because of

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Nirvana is the utter cessation of desire or craving; it means extinction.

The submission of personal experience as evidence of group experience asserts the tyranny of the individual. It is a mimicry of the liberal politics of the powerful that demand minority groups submit a single entity to speak on their behalf in order to foreclose a discussion of broader edifices of power. This guarantees that the political potential of the 1AC will simply become another alibi to turn politics into policing

Scott, 92 – professor of sociology at Princeton (Joan, “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity,” The Identity in Question (Summer, 1992), pp. 12-19, JSTOR)

There is nothing wrong, on the face of it

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prerequisites for inclusion in any group.

Just as Don Quixote fought windmills, the aff is fighting against the world itself -~-- to give up violence,, we must first give up this sort of violence within our own hearts

Khema 1994 (Ayya Khema 1994 Buddhist monk, “All of us beset by Birth, Decay, and Death.” Buddhism Today, http://www.buddhismtoday.com/english/philosophy/thera/003-allofus-5.htm)\

If you have ever read Don Quixote, you'll remember that he was fighting windmills

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Unless that becomes clear to us, we will always find another crusade.

We know that it is important to recognize our privileged subject positions – I know that I am a white male, I know that I come from a predominantly white jewish suburb of Minneapolis and I know that the high school I went to is in a city that used to be a sundown town – I know that I go to a pretty bourgeoisie school and I know that I am privileged to even travel here but I know that I want to shed this identity as best as I can –

Mythical identification involves the assertion of one component of their situatedness as a defining and distinguishing trait -~-- we should challenge this exclusionary vision of community because it lays the foundation for mass destruction

Glowacka ‘6 (Culture Machine, Vol 8 (2006) Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-Ontology in Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy, Dorota Glowacka ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES; ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MA(Wroclaw), PhD(SUNY)

Why is the idea of community so powerful that it is possible for its members

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era, is inextricable from the general problematic of the Western metaphysical subject.

We affirm the body without organs -~-- through the continuous destratification with one another, we are already becoming-different -~-- understanding the way that difference is formed out of a foundation of sameness can help us transform and reimagine our current predicaments

Ruffolo adjunct Professorships at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education) and Ryerson University  2k9 (David, Post Queer Politics. Pg 50-54)

Post-queer rhizomatic politics is one that is directed outwards rather than inwards.

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smoothen the strata so as to not be limited by structural organizations.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: MSU GT | Judge: Blumie

We are navigating the most complex arrangement in the world, the human cognitive environment

Bruni, 11 – Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark (Luis Emilio, Cognitive Sustainability in the Age of Digital Culture)

In semiotics when one speaks about texts and languages there is a much broader connotation

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whole of communication, i.e.: semiosis itself, cannot exist.

In his Semiotic Theory of Culture, Lotman (2005/1984; 1990),

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e. texts) that are and have been implemented in such languages.

This semiotic space, the semiosphere, is the necessary condition for culture to continue

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comes from the periphery to conquer the center and transform its very nature.

One feature claimed by Lotman is the semiosphere's incredible heterogeneity. The languages that fill

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course what interests us here, i.e.: "digital culture".

The virtual space of culture that we are calling, after Lotman, the semiosphere

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its synchronic and diachronic reach – allowed by the advent of digital technology.

The analytical semiosphere/technosphere dichotomy illustrates the more general considerations of the distinction,

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current six billion brains with the many other billions that have preceded us.

The 1ac uses Linear shots in the dark —- point predictions are impossible to obtain sufficient knowledge

Bernstein et al, 2k (Steven Bernstein., Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber, University of Toronto, The Ohio State University, University of Toronto and University of California at Berkeley. "God Gave Physics the Easy Problems" European Journal of International Relations 2000; 6; 43.)

Wars - to continue with the same example - are similar to chemical and nuclear

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different in a logical sense when done in past or future time.5

Nuclear dominance becomes a pole that our collective human work becomes drawn to —- technologies oriented around control divide us from nature

Kinsella 2k5 (William, assoc prof comm @ NC State"One Hundred Years of Nuclear Discourse: Four Master Themes and Their Implications for Environmental Communication" Environmental Communication Yearbook, vol. 2, 49-72.)

The theme of nuclear entelechy provides a basis for some concluding observations on nuclear discourse

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the process is leading and how we might choose that endpoint more consciously.

This creates a genocidal nuclear telos that is at the core of their prolif impacts

Kato, 12 – a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Hawai'i system (Masahide T., Expanding Our Collective Conceptual Horizon, http://kdebate.com/kato.html)

Another important element of discourse or imagery that became outdated with the CTBT is a

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if the nuclear fixed capital is officially not designed for a militaristic purpose.

Incorporating awareness of our dialoguing with the natural world is crucial to reversing a genocidal tradition

George E. Tinker, Iliff School Of Technology, 1996 ~~[Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives On Environmental Justice, Ed. Jace Weaver, P. 171-72~~]

My suggestion that we take the recognition of indigenous sovereignty as a priority is an

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is not simply just; the survival of all may depend on it.

Hegemony never existed – system is de-centralized, applying hegemonic mythology to policy causes blowback and destroys cooperation

Doran, 09 (Charles F., Andrew W. Mellon Prof. of International Relations, Director of the Global Theory and History Program, Director of the Center for Canadian Studies @ Johns Hopkins U., "Fooling Oneself: The Mythology of Hegemony" International Studies Review, Vol. 11.1)

More than a catalogue of techniques other governments use to resist U.S.

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be self-financing, self-enforcing, and self-sufficient.

The aff gives a stimulant to a predator culture

Street, 05 (March 18^th, http://www.doublestandards.org/street1.html, Paul, Those Who Deny the Crimes of the Past: American Racist Atrocity Denial, Paul Street is research director at the Chicago Urban League. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in In These Times, Z Magazine, Monthly Review,  Dissent, Journal of Social History,  Mid-America, and the Journal of American Ethnic History).

It is especially important to appreciate the significance of the vicious, often explicitly genocidal

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roamed by an immeasurably more civilized people than those who came to destroy.

We should embrace an empathetic dialogue with the world outside of this –  this sort of ontological shift can serve as a catalyst for renewal of the energy in our society

Rifkin 10 ~~[Jeremy, masters degree in international affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, January 2010, Huffington Post, "The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-empathic-civilization_b_416589.html~~]

What is required now is nothing less than a leap to global empathic consciousness and

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to flourish on a global scale, for the first time in history.

Debate involves the trading of utopian imaginaries for ballots —- metrics like political feasibility are irrelevant

McGee and Romanelli 97 – Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Texas Tech AND Director of Debate at Loyola University of Chicago

(Brian and David, "Policy Debate as Fiction: In Defense of Utopian Fiat", Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 18 (1997) 23-35, dml)

Snider argued several years ago that a suitable paradigm should address "something we can

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consequences of accepting such proposals for change.

Without these ontological shifts first, Energy infrastructure has empirically entrenched global ills more and more

Byrne and Toly 2k6 (john, Noah, "Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse" Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, And Society in Conflict. Eds John Byrne, Noah Toly, and Leigh Glover. Pgs 1-32. Transaction Publishers. )

From climate change to acid rain, contaminated landscapes, mercury pollution, and biodiversity

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considers the discursive continuities between the premises of conventional and sustainable energy futures.

Making use of the socius and its incredible head

Moten and Harney, 10 – (Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Policy and Planning, http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2010/04/19/policy-and-planning/)

The hope that Cornel West wrote about in Social Text in 1984~~[1~~]

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can't see it, policy can't read it, but it's intelligible if you got a plan.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: MSU GT | Judge: Blumenthal

All of debate is non-expert analysis -~-- competitive plausibility should be the standard for judging our theories

Bernal, 87 – Professor Emeritus of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. (Martin, Black Athena Volume 1, 4-9)

Outsiders can never have … valid than that from archaeology.

Their framework is a view from nowhere – View from Nowhere Da -~-- Prevents debate from ever switching sides on itself, catches us in a spiraling cycle of undemocratic politics

Wise, 08 (Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, 2008, p kindle)

When we were on the negative side, I … without the luxury of blinders.

Context analysis occurs through mapping issues in complex frameworks for thinking transversally across domains -~-- this sort of interdisciplinary analysis is the only way to respond to problems of uncertainty without omnipotence

Rai, 10 – Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai (Amit S., January 7, 2010, Truths of Times to come: On Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy, Part Two, http://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/on-deleuze%E2%80%99s-nietzsche-and-philosophy-part-two/)

This pragmatology of becoming draws … importance at the moment of phase transitions. (Stengers 69)

The mechanism for evolution of such systems -~-- Your ballot is the currency of debate – vote for … to … All the little votes lay the foundation for a destructive system—political salience is in your hands

Ansary, 05 – (Alex, 12/29/05, Mass Mind Control; Through Network Television; Are Your Thoughts Your Own?, http://www.rense.com/general69/mass.htm)

Some people are wrong about … to the information.

There are no brinks in this process—a revolutionary future can only come about through a series of small steps that work through a process of becoming possible

Deleuze and Parnet, 87 (Gilles and Claire, dialogues II, p. 146-147)

All this constitutes what … every level, in every place.

These decisions to prioritize different sets of values are capable of creatively altering the fabric of political and social realities – in other words, which arguments you choose to verify as superior with your ballot has a profound effect on the existential concoction of the current socius

Guattari, 89 (Felix, The Three Ecologies, p. 43)

It must also be stressed that this … social relations of force.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 8 | Opponent: Liberty LW | Judge: Baker

The aff ignores the prior question of Native American colonization --we are colonial occupiers of stolen land.

Churchill, 03 (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, “I am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World”).

Leaving aside questions concerning the validity of various treaties, the beginning point for any

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for attainment of everyone seriously committed to accomplishing positive change in North America.

The origins of violence towards the other began, not with theoretical misdirection, but with the genocide of the Native Americans.  The only way to address these issues is to begin by taking this material reality seriously.

Rogin, 88 (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Political_Repression/Political_Repression_US.html. “Political Repression in the United States”, from the book Ronald Reagan: The Movie and other episodes in political demonology, Michael, Prof of Poli Sci UC Berkeley).

Masterless Indians had challenged European institutional restraints at the beginning of American history. Early

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, and radical dissent-form the major loci of American political suppression.

They give a stimulant to a predator culture -~-- more growth doesn’t do anything besides propelling us further into our current trajectory

Tremblay 10 – (Francois, 2/28/10, http://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/what-is-the-economy/, RBatra)

We routinely talk about “the economy”

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viability of the current capital-democratic system.

Given the aff's negligence, our alternative is to reject the affirmative’s ontological ignorance -~-- this is a crucial starting point by addressing the material conditions of violence.

Churchill, 03 (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, “I am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World”).

Not only is it perfectly reasonable to assert that a restoration of native control over

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make themselves part of the problem rather than becoming part of the solution.

Taking the decolonization of North America seriously is the only way to control the state. It is impossible to end oppression without starting in Indian Country. Otherwise, extinction is inevitable.

Churchill, 03 (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, “Radioactive Colonization”).

It is worth observing that the ensuing decolonization of Native North America would offer benefits

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goes around, comes around, ” as Charlie Manson liked to say).  

Their predictions are Linear shots in the dark -~-- these questions are extraordinarily difficult to ascertain accurate information about—biases and limited context prefigure flawed interpretations of incomplete data sets.

Bernstein et al, 2k (Steven Bernstein., Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber, University of Toronto, The Ohio State University, University of Toronto and University of California at Berkeley. “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems” European Journal of International Relations 2000; 6; 43.)

Wars - to continue with the same example - are similar to chemical and nuclear

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different in a logical sense when done in past or future time.5

Every ounce of defense we win against the case is offense-~--repetition of impact inflation serves as the catalyst for accelerating warfare

Willcox, 05 – PhD University of Kent (David R. PROPAGANDA, THE PRESS AND CONFLICT, http://potsdam.yorex.org/sites/potsdam.yorex.org/files/propaganda%20and%20press.pdf)

Media technology advances do not only affect the perception of conflict. Changes in the

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more comprehensive, rather than the actual reality of the nature of coverage.

Debate is composed of utopian imaginaries -~-- political feasibility is irrelevant

McGee and Romanelli 97 – Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Texas Tech AND Director of Debate at Loyola University of Chicago

(Brian and David, “Policy Debate as Fiction: In Defense of Utopian Fiat”, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 18 (1997) 23-35, dml)

Snider argued several years ago that a suitable paradigm

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consequences of accepting such proposals for change.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Samford AS | Judge: Severson

1NC

Desire creates the illusion of the self and the suffering that defines the human condition. Our only capacity is thus to affirm the extermination of this desire in the face of perpetual death and an impermanent reality

DOLLIMORE 1998 (Jonathan Dollimore 1998 (Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, p 54-56.)

Siddhartha Gautama (560-477 BC) was a prince who, because of

AND

Nirvana is the utter cessation of desire or craving; it means extinction.

Their use of wind technology to achieve dominance over the world presupposes the existence of an incomplete self that must achieve mastery over the world around us to achieve completion – this ignores the ultimate reality that there is no self – the prior question is reorienting our relationship towards technology

Loy 3 – card-carrying Buddhist

(David, Technology and Cultural Values: on the edge of the third millennium, pp.176-187, dml)

 According to Buddhism, this ego-self is illusory because it corresponds to

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world can ever be enough if that is not what I really want.

According to Buddhism, such personal "reality projects" -- these ways we try

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lack into the source of our creativity and spontaneity Loy (1996).

The above describes our individual problem. Now the big question: is the same

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world? In this case, by objectifying and transforming the world technologically?

Technology is not applied science. It is the expression of a deep longing,

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to master its being; to own it. Verene: 107

What is that deep longing? Remember the problem of life-meaning that,

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us. In compensation, has technological development become our collective security project?

Today we have become so familiar with rapid scientific and technological development that we have

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which we try to secure and manipulate the material conditions of our existence.

This is why so many of us have been able to dispense with the consolations

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important truth for a species so wholly dependent on its deteriorating physical environment.

The result is that no amount of material security ("resources") can provide the

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we running so fast because we are trying to get away from something?

Another way to put it is that our technology has become our attempt to own

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improving" nature means we can no longer rest peacefully in its bosom.

Yet there seems to be a problem with this "lack" approach

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anti-progress attitude that was questioned earlier?

In response, it is necessary to emphasize that this approach does not imply any

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how this will reduce dukkha, and what its other effects will be?

Such questions encourage us, in effect, to transform our motivations, in a

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scientific and sociological evaluation less subverted by desire for profit or competitive advantage.

Our impacts outweigh – voting negative breaks the shackles of the ego through embracing its annihilation

Perreira 10 – Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara

(Todd LeRoy, ""Die before you die”: Death Meditation as Spiritual Technology of the Self in Islam and Buddhism”, The Muslim World Vol 100, Issue 2-3, 247-267, dml)

In Theravada Buddhism, death (marana  ) is understood simply as the "interruption

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the narrative of one’s life in accordance with the narrative of tradition. 55

Use the ballot to engage in meditative affirmation of the status quo.

Astma 6 – Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College

(Stephen, "Against Transcendentalism: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Buddhism”, Monty Python and Philosophy ebook copy, dml)

Upon close inspection, Buddha shows, paradise crumbles. The atman, on the

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will only know for sure if we are less distracted and more mindful.

2NC Overview

Hermann Hesse explains the alternative in his book Siddhartha –

"I'm not kidding. I'm telling you what I've found. Knowledge can be

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, what had ever been valuable and holy to him in his life.

(Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha pg 99-106 ebook copy, dml)

Link - Economy

Econ link

Loy 10 – card-carrying Buddhist

(David, “Healing Ecology”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics Volume 17, 2010, pg 253-267, dml)

When we ask the question in this way, I believe that the answer becomes 

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need? Why is more always better if it can never be enough?

My point is that technology and economic growth in themselves cannot resolve the basic human 

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, we have become demonically obsessed with ever-increasing power and control. 

Notice the parallel with one’s individual predicament: lacking the security that comes from knowing 

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we seek. We have become more anxious and confused, not less. 

Turns their impacts and v2l

Hagos 10 – writer for Wafrika, citing David Korten, former Professor at the Harvard Business School 

(Michael, “The Cult Of Having Versus The City Of Being – Updated”, http://www.wafrika.com/?p=267, dml)

Put differently, democratic equality will never be achieved as long as we are alienated
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culture that promotes and glorifies the former at the expense of the latter.

Since authentic love 

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lack of authentic love:

Our seemingly insatiable quest for money and material consumption is in fact a quest to
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lives will grow and the human crisis will deepen. (David Korten)

Link – Environment

Can’t solve warming with tech – question of ontologies

Loy 10 – card-carrying Buddhist

(David, "Healing Ecology”, Journal of Buddhist Ethics Volume 17, 2010, pg 253-267, dml)

If these parallels are valid—if they are an accurate description of our collective

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is like me taking care of my own leg. (Sound familiar?)

Does this solution involve "returning to nature”? That would be like getting rid

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If we befoul our own nest, there is nowhere else to go.

According to this understanding, the problem is not technology itself but the obsessive ways

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by determining how much renewable energy is available and restructuring human civilization accordingly.

2NC Perm

Short-term gratification and long-term connections are mutually exclusive and they cause extinction

Hagos 9 – writer for Wafrika

(Michael, The Cult Of Having Versus The City Of Being pg 48-49, dml)

The planet is burning. As we have seen, this is very much a

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already have been devastatingly enormous)—contrary to our calling as human beings.

Everything about the world is beautiful and perfect – you should affirm it – do not endorse their struggle to change, for it detaches us from harmony

McClellan 93 – Assistant Professor with the Department of Communication at Boise State University, this article was written when he was attending the University of Colorado at Boulder

(John, "Nondual Ecology: In Praise of Wildness and in Search of Harmony with Everything That Moves”, http:~/~/www.colorado.edu/peacestudies/sustainable-economics/nondual-ecology/html, dml)

Deep ecology is good, but not always useful in everyday life. We need

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plenty of good life-filled world for us to join in with.

2NC Framework

FIRST is ego – as long as we seek external solutions to our problems we can never achieve true harmony – the solution lies in letting go of the self and acknowledging that we cannot control the form of debate –This is especially true in the context of roleplaying

Rāhula 74

(Walpola, 1974, What the Buddha Taught, 29-30) gender-modified words denoted by brackets

Here the term ‘thirst’ includes not only desire for, and attachment to,

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Here we must have some idea about the theory of karma and rebirth.

The aff can’t do anything about _________ – roleplaying creates a simulation that makes genuine engagement with existence impossible

Antonio 1995

Robert J., Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, "Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (Jul., 1995), pp. 1-43

The "problem of the actor," Nietzsche said, "troubled me for the

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117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).

2NC Consequences

Wallace and Shapiro 6 – Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies AND Santa Clara University

(B. Alan and Shauna, "Mental Balance and Well-Being:  Building Bridges Between Buddhism and Western Psychology”, American Psychologist Vol. 61, No. 7, 690 –701, dml)

Well-being that transcends such transient, stimulus-driven pleasures depends on the

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think will make them happy does not lead to lasting well-being.

Chaos theory disproves their linear predictions

Wilson, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies MA International Studies and Diplomacy, 9/27/1999 (Garret, "Nonlinear Dynamical Systems as a Paradigm for International Relations Theory,” http://www.garretwilson.com/essays/internationalrelations/complexworld.html)

It is undeniable that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist

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of complex nonlinear systems can provide insights into outcomes in the international arena.

2NC Death

meditative affirmation of the status quo is preferable

Loy 92 – card-carrying Buddhist

(David, “What's Wrong with Heidegger's Being and Time: A Buddhist Critique”, Time and Society, vol.1, no.2 (May 1992), pp.239-255, dml)

 For Buddhism, the dualism between life and death exemplifies a more general problem

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forecloses on its greatest anxiety by letting-go and dying right now.

Needless to say, this cannot save the body from aging and rotting; then

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if the sense-of-self is not what I really am.

Why do we need to keep projecting ourselves indefinitely into the future, unless something

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from our sense of lack and our attempts to fill in that lack.

The Buddhist perspective suggests that if nothing is lacking now, then immortality loses its

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am everything -- or, more precisely, that I can be anything.

we are a prerequisite to action that celebrates life

Jones 81 – founder of the Network of Engaged Buddhists  

(Ken, “Buddhism and Social Action: An Exploration”, http:~/~/www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/jones/wheel285.html#html#one, dml) gender-modified words denoted by brackets

Through our practice, both in the world and in withdrawn meditation, the delusion

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hope to achieve this ideal, and not through some process of incubation.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: BC KM | Judge: Kurr

1NC

Energy production excludes ANY conversion or transformation process – limited to extraction

Energici (provides business intelligence and decision support services to companies and investors active in the wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and bioenergy industries. Specializes in providing robust research, analysis and intelligence coverage of trends and developments) February 2012 “PRIMARY ENERGY PRODUCTION (MONTHLY)” http://www.energici.com/energy-profiles/by-country/europe-m-z/sweden/49-countries/north-america/usa/usa-geothermal/449-primary-energy-production

Definition : Primary Energy Production is the amount of energy converted from a primary energy

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and wood-derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption and biofuels feedstock.

Violation – the plan affects only the secondary forms of energy production

That’s a voter –

First, Limits – Secondary production is an catch-all category – explodes the literature base

Kim Woodard (Research Assistant at the Resource Systems Institute of the East-West Center,  Chairman and CEO of Javelin Investments) 1980 “The International Energy Relations of China” p. 457

Secondary energy production can most easily be defined as the conversion of one energy fuel

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should be taken as a point of reference, not the final word.

Second, Precision - Separating primary and secondary forms of energy is key to overall energy policy – precision outweighs

Sara Øvergaard (Senior Executive Officer in the Department on Energy Statistics at Statistics Norway) September 2008 “Issue paper: Definition of primary and secondary energy” http:~/~/unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/londongroup/meeting13/LG13_12a.pdf

The ability to separate primary and secondary energy is important in energy statistics. The

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source, and that the electricity produced from this source is secondary energy.

2NC

Independently they don’t meet financial incentives

UNCATD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) 2000 “Tax Incentives and Foreign Direct Investment¶ A Global Survey” http://unctad.org/en/Docs/iteipcmisc3_en.pdf

Most countries, irrespective of their stage of development, employ a wide variety of

incentives to realize their investment objectives. Developed countries, however, more frequently employ

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use fiscal incentives that do not require upfront use of¶ government funds.

including indirect fiscal incentives explodes the topic and makes the literature base unamangable

Florence Hubert and  Nigel Pain (National Institute for Economic and Social Research) March 2002 “Fiscal Incentives, European Integration, and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment” http://www.niesr.ac.uk/pubs/dps/dp195.PDF

Comparable data can be obtained for all these measures for all European countries. It

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time. and can affect¶ flows of new investment for several years.

The aff involves the production of energy WITHIN the human energy system – primary production is the PROCESS of taking a natural resource across that line for the first time

Sara Øvergaard (Senior Executive Officer in the Department on Energy Statistics at Statistics Norway) September 2008 “Issue paper: Definition of primary and secondary energy” http:~/~/unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/londongroup/meeting13/LG13_12a.pdf

The most important distinguishing characteristics of primary and secondary energy are the process/activity

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Secondary energy is energy embodied in commodities that comes from human induced energy transformation

The phrase “energy production” is too imprecise – our interpretation is critical to maintain the integrity of the topic and our analysis of energy policy

Tom Noyes (works in health care finance in the Wilmington area. He has worked in city government, led two non-profit organizations, directed communications for four political campaigns and earned an MBA in finance) December 2005 “Economics and the Environment, Part 1: What Happens When We Light a Fire” http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/08/170460/--Economics-and-the-Environment-Part-1-What-Happens-When-We-Light-a-Fire

If we wish to be precise, we wouldn't use the phrase "energy production

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at the assumptions underlying the way we think about economics and the environment.

Even if you don’t buy that – ‘Energy production’ as a term refers to primary production

NBSC (National Bureau of Statistics of China) 2002 “7. Production and Consumption of Energy” http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/classificationsmethods/definitions/t20020517_402787580.htm

Total Energy Production  refers to the total production of primary energy by all energy producing

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energy, solar energy and the secondary energy converted from the primary energy.

The text of the rez should be the primary determinant of how we view it

Weaver, 7 (Aaron, PhD candidate in politics and society,  “An Introduction to Original Intent.” Fall 2007 (Baylor University: J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies): 1-9. http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/BDWFiles/originalism.pdf)

Discovering the “original intent” behind the religion clauses of the First Amendment is

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Founding Fathers and the Framers of the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause

of the First Amendment. Those scholars in search of “original intent” have

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Extrinsic evidence does not control the text. The text controls the text.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: BC KM | Judge: Kurr
1NC

Their attempt to describe China as an objective threat arrogantly presumes that China exists as an object that can be known. This pseudoscientific description of Chinese hostility only reifies the justifications for violent American containment strategies that result in a self-fulfilling prophecy

Chengxin Pan, 2004 (Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, June-July 2004 v29 i3 p305(27), The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics)

China and its relationship with the United States has long been a fascinating subject of

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or engagement is the best way to deal with it. (1)

While U.S. China scholars argue fiercely over "what China precisely is

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normative status as discursive practice and their enormous practical implications for international politics.

Their form of politics translates into a policymaking of aggressive containment that culminates in war

Chengxin Pan, 2004 (Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, June-July 2004 v29 i3 p305(27), The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics)

Thus, even in the face of such a potentially explosive incident, the self

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dragged into an escalating arms race that would eventually make war more likely.

Their attempt to describe China as an objective threat arrogantly presumes that China exists as an object that can be known. This pseudoscientific description of Chinese hostility only reifies the justifications for violent American containment strategies that result in a self-fulfilling prophecy

Chengxin Pan, 2004 (Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, June-July 2004 v29 i3 p305(27), The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics)

China and its relationship with the United States has long been a fascinating subject of

AND

or engagement is the best way to deal with it. (1)

While U.S. China scholars argue fiercely over "what China precisely is

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normative status as discursive practice and their enormous practical implications for international politics.

Their form of politics translates into a policymaking of aggressive containment that culminates in war

Chengxin Pan, 2004 (Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, June-July 2004 v29 i3 p305(27), The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics)

Thus, even in the face of such a potentially explosive incident, the self

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dragged into an escalating arms race that would eventually make war more likely.

1NR

Willcox, 05 – PhD University of Kent (David R. PROPAGANDA, THE PRESS AND CONFLICT, http://potsdam.yorex.org/sites/potsdam.yorex.org/files/propaganda%20and%20press.pdf)

Media technology advances do not only affect the perception of conflict. Changes in the

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more comprehensive, rather than the actual reality of the nature of coverage.

Kellner, 08 Douglas Kellner, professor of philosophy at UCLA, "Preface The Ideology of HIgh-Tech/Postmodern War vs. the Reality of Messy Wars." http:~/~/gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/2008_Kellner_MessyWarPreface_pdf 

Hence, phenomenal new military technologies are being produced in the Third Millennium, described

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social life, as shown in Messy Wars’ chapter 3 about war environment.

Bernstein et al, 2k (Steven Bernstein., Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber, University of Toronto, The Ohio State University, University of Toronto and University of California at Berkeley. “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems” European Journal of International Relations 2000; 6; 43.)

Wars - to continue with the same example - are similar to chemical and nuclear

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different in a logical sense when done in past or future time.5

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: BC KM | Judge: Kurr
 

Heg causes war and prolif-recalcitrant power balancing takes out the benefits of heg

Monteiro 11 *Nuno P. Monteiro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University __http:~/~/www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00064http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00064, “Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity is not Peaceful”

A unipole carrying out a defensive-dominance strategy will seek to preserve all three

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shifted toward a strategy of offensive dominance, to which I turn next.

Extinction

Asal and Beardsley 09 (Victor, Department of Political Science, State University of New York, Albany, and Kyle, Department of Political Science, Emory University, Winning with the Bomb, http:~/~/belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/uploads/Beardsley-Asal_Winning_with_the_pdf)

Conclusion Why do states proliferate? Nuclear weapons and the programs necessary to create them

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necessarily mean that the weapons are a net benefit for peace and stability.

Hegemony never existed – system is de-centralized, applying hegemonic mythology to policy causes blowback and destroys cooperation

Doran, 09 (Charles F., Andrew W. Mellon Prof. of International Relations, Director of the Global Theory and History Program, Director of the Center for Canadian Studies @ Johns Hopkins U., “Fooling Oneself: The Mythology of Hegemony” International Studies Review, Vol. 11.1)

More than a catalogue of techniques other governments use to resist U.S.

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be self-financing, self-enforcing, and self-sufficient.

2NC

We’ll internal link turn all of their military power arguments-eminent military power makes all of our threats non-credible and prevents peaceful resolution to crises-a world of parity is the only way to access credible threats and military power

Monteiro 10 *Nuno P. Monteiro is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research and teach­ing focuses on international relations theory and security studies. He is currently writing a book on the causes of conflict in a unipolar world. Professor Monteiro received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2009 http://yalejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/105216monteiro.pdf, Spring Summer 2010, “Why U.S. Does Not Deter Challenges”

Well into the Obama presidency, the broadest foreign policy challenge facing the United States

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no surprise. It follows from the unparalleled power of the United States.

Kagan’s wrong – liberal order’s not intrinsic to primacy and their impacts are threat inflation – his studies are flawed and he concedes no impact

Preble 12 – vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute (seriously, even Cato doesn’t like Kagan)

(Christopher, “The Critique of Pure Kagan”, http:~/~/nationalinterest.org/print/bookreview/org/print/bookreview/the-critique-pure-kagan-7061, dml)

It is a familiar refrain. But, as with Kagan’s earlier works, The

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. But, once again, he concedes that he cannot prove it.

Hegemony has no relationship to globalization-inherent incentives mean globalized liberalism is inevitable

Gartzke 9 *Erik Gartzke is an associate professor of political science at UC San Diego Gartzke Power Shuffle: Will the Coming Transition Be Peaceful? Gartzke, lateralsearchlink:lateralsearch/sng/author/Gartzke,+Erik/$N?t:ac=200780115/fulltext/1359B17966B78DAEF0F/7andt:cp=maintain/resultcitationblocks. Current png||height="3" width="3"http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/docview.issuebrowselink:searchpublicationissue/41559/Current+History/02009Y11Y01$23Nov+2009$3b++Vol.+108+$28721$29/108/721?t:ac=200780115/fulltext/1359B17966B78DAEF0F/7andt:cp=maintain/resultcitationblocks108. 721image:Missing.png||height="3" width="3"http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/docview.issuebrowselink:searchpublicationissue/41559/Current+History/02009Y11Y01$23Nov+2009$3b++Vol.+108+$28721$29/108/721?t:ac=200780115/fulltext/1359B17966B78DAEF0F/7andt:cp=maintain/resultcitationblocks (Nov 2009): 374-380

Too often, the tendency has been to equate US leadership with the US-

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to rise, then war of any significant intensity is a futile act.

Unipolarity destroys coordination necessary to stop the next epidemic-abandoning heg solves

Weber et al. 7 *Steven Weber is a Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley and Director of the Institute of International Studies, Naazneen Barma, Matthew Kroenig, Ely Ratner, “How Globalization Went Bad”,  January-February 2007, Foreign Policy

The same is true for global public health. Globalization is turning the world into

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Southeast Asia or sub-Saharan Africa. America can’t change that alone.

Disease – It leads to extinction

GREGER 08 – M.D., is Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States (Michael Greger, , Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, http:~/~/birdflubook.com/a.php?id=111url:http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=111)

Senate Majority Leader Frist describes the recent slew of emerging diseases in almost biblical terms

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“might easily transmute into a tune whistled whilst passing a graveyard.”3154

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 6 | Opponent: KSU KM | Judge: Topp
1NC

Because I could not stop for Death,
 He kindly stopped for me;
 The carriage held but just ourselves
 And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
 And I had put away
 My labour, and my leisure too,
 For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
 Their lessons scarcely done;
 We passed the fields of gazing grain,
 We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
 A swelling of the ground;
 The roof was scarcely visible,
 The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
 Feels shorter than the day
 I first surmised the horses' heads
 Were toward eternity.*

*Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for Death"

http:~/~/academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/html

from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

2NC

our starting point for discourse must be the immorality of poetry

Land '12 Nick, former Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University, Fanged Noumena ed. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay "Shamanic Nietzche" in Nietzsche: A Critical Reader 1993

Philosophy is a ghoul that haunts only ruins, and the broken croaks of our

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order, and an incitement to the unspeakable: 'poetry is immoral.'

salvation is an attempt to become One before the moment of subtraction, whereas we position an ethos of exuberance towards Nothingness

Land '12 Nick, former Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University, Fanged Noumena ed. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay "Shamanic Nietzche" in Nietzsche: A Critical Reader 1993

The death of God is a religious event - a transgression, experiment in damnation
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of the shattered attitude, it is transgression'. (Bataille, Oevres)

ignorant of Nothingness, any knowledge hubristically collapses under its own self-congratulatory incompleteness. if the 1ar cannot interpret the void then you should reject all their knowledge claims and vote neg on presumption

Heidegger '67 William V. Spanos “The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics” boundary 2 / Spring 2000, citing
 Heidegger, ‘‘What Is Metaphysics?’’ in Basic Writings, 95–96

‘What is remarkable is that, precisely in the way scientific man secures to
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thing is sure: science wishes to know nothing of the nothing.’

Learning this lesson is a pre-requisite to policy relevance-speaker credibility is infinitely more important in the policy environment
Branson 2007 (Josh, edebate, http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/2007-May/071122.html, 5/31) 

I wrote about this at length back when we were arguing about the Harrison card
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 nonproliferation policy etc) was all missing. 

The plan justification implies a pinioned open-ness to an undoomed future as a good which we can always never afford  it is this economical open-ness that a negative ballot makes sacrificial to the Outside

Negarestani ‘8 Reza, philosopher, artist “cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials” p.195-199

In the mid-eighties, before succumbing to his petromantic nympholepsy, Hamid Parsani
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as the prolonging of survival; affordability in all its forms guarantees survival.

Life itself is exterior to the act of survival  the only ethical act is to affirm the present tense as a form of nourishment for the Unworld

Negarestani ‘8 Reza, philosopher, artist “cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials” p.210-213
The problematic of Life can be superficially — if not ironically — embraced by posing
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and religiously conscious of its own repression and the exteriority of life. 

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1nc=identity k - hybrid of deleuze, buddhism, and identity politics bad

2nr=k

1NC was a critique of nuclear ontology and predictions

2nr was the k

1NC was a complexity/heg bad K - mostly the same cards as in round 4 and 8 1ncs

2nr was the k

1NC was give back the land

The 2NR was states and politics.

Aff was wind PTC for natives with an EJ advantage
1NC was give back the land and buddhism
2NR was buddhism

Aff was approving export permits for natural gas
1NC was:
T Primary Production
Buddhism
Heg bad and Pan on case

2nr was case turns

Aff was coal something with SCS and econ advantages
1nc was buddhism, zeroism, and dedev/pan on case

2nr was buddhism

1nc was buddhism and zeroism, 2nr was buddhism

1ac was wind ptc for natives
1nc was energy production k, give back the land, and heg bad/warming good on case
2nr was energy production k

1ac was ecological literacy
1nc was a procedural arg that they have to defend the whole 1ac, incentives-spec, buddhism, and a state pic
2nr was i-spec :3

1ac was solar tariffs, over 9000 terminal impacts
1nc was t tariffs =/= restrictions, buddhism, and energy production k
2nr was energy production k

1ac was FITs with a warming, china econ, and grid advantage
1nc was t financial incentives, time-image qritiq, zeroism, and neolib k
2nr was neolib

aff was oil
1nc was pan k and neolib
2nr was neolib

aff was solar with a warming advantage and a bunch of science good biz
1nc was i-spec, visibility, the state pic, and buddhism
2nr was buddhism

aff was tera with some kristeva biz
1nc was baudrillard and buddhism
2nr was buddhism

1ac was red pedagogy
1nc was buddhism and imperceptibility k
2nr was imperceptibility

1ac was solar installed vehicles
1nc was t - vehicles bad, bataille, neolib, and case
2nr was neolib and some solvency biz

1ac was ecopedagogy
1nc was imperceptibility and buddhism
2nr was buddhism

1ac was hip hop pedagogy
1nc was imperceptibility, baudrillard, and global ethics fw
2nr was global ethics and the f-word k (introduced in 2nc)

1ac was ifrs with a brain drain and warming advantage
1nc was buddhism, time image k, and case
2nr was buddhism