My Eschatological Exegesis
What hath we wrought? Our mechanized industrial synthetic-cybernetic world is running amok, disorganized by corrupt rule makers who are seemingly inaccesible
....Earth has experienced five great extinctions in the past and is currently undergoing a sixth- due, mainly, to Mans short term greed. We may be fatally infected with thanatos, trapped inside a long emergency.The battle is over the commons- things held in common. And what is that? the air, the sea, the deserts, mountains and forests-all of nature. Emperor Justinian first encoded the concept of the commons... Magna Carta later extended it in English law... Teddy Roosevelt helped immensely, as did Rachel Carson and Nixon, but enough was never done. But the failure of the ecology movement is most evident in recent history. President Bush, selected to rule by a few bankers and oilmen, has posted industry lapdogs in positions of power where instead of guarding the commons they are violently raping it. The controls over the clean air and water act have been loosened. The standards for the endangered species act have been rewritten. Mountain top mining in Appalachia is destroying the entire region..inside our children's blood flows harmful amounts of toxic metals and endocrine disruptors..... and the oceans are breathing their last sighs. We once rallied and did save the Eagle, we once did care.
Spellbound by gadgets and slaves to our tools, choking upon the poisoned air of our 'success,' how are we to extricate ourselves from our dehumanized nightmare? Too many cemetary talkers, scoffers and mockers, try to derail the implementation of the possible positive processes necessary to ensure that the inheritors and creator-preservers prevail. The danger has not really been the evil inside bad men, but the apathy among good people everywhere that allows evil to rule. Our leaders are only people, and they can be replaced. Our condition has a partly circular origin- fascist corporations induce us to give up. Never before in human history have so many been fooled by so few. In a few decades, our planetary civilization probably will not exist: either way, we need a new system. Until there is a conversion to local decentralized administration and economic democracy and sustainability, there can be little improvement...or even hope. If we look outward, we can dream only a little- but if we look inward, our hearts can know.
The land bound by iron, four horsemen approach.
The antidote for apathy is enthusiasm- to produce enthusiasm one needs two things- an ideal, and a concrete plan that can drag the dream into existence...
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, dedicated people can change the world. Indeed, thats the only way it has ever been changed."-Anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Inchoate ?
....Earth has experienced five great extinctions in the past and is currently undergoing a sixth- due, mainly, to Mans short term greed. We may be fatally infected with thanatos, trapped inside a long emergency.The battle is over the commons- things held in common. And what is that? the air, the sea, the deserts, mountains and forests-all of nature. Emperor Justinian first encoded the concept of the commons... Magna Carta later extended it in English law... Teddy Roosevelt helped immensely, as did Rachel Carson and Nixon, but enough was never done. But the failure of the ecology movement is most evident in recent history. President Bush, selected to rule by a few bankers and oilmen, has posted industry lapdogs in positions of power where instead of guarding the commons they are violently raping it. The controls over the clean air and water act have been loosened. The standards for the endangered species act have been rewritten. Mountain top mining in Appalachia is destroying the entire region..inside our children's blood flows harmful amounts of toxic metals and endocrine disruptors..... and the oceans are breathing their last sighs. We once rallied and did save the Eagle, we once did care.
Spellbound by gadgets and slaves to our tools, choking upon the poisoned air of our 'success,' how are we to extricate ourselves from our dehumanized nightmare? Too many cemetary talkers, scoffers and mockers, try to derail the implementation of the possible positive processes necessary to ensure that the inheritors and creator-preservers prevail. The danger has not really been the evil inside bad men, but the apathy among good people everywhere that allows evil to rule. Our leaders are only people, and they can be replaced. Our condition has a partly circular origin- fascist corporations induce us to give up. Never before in human history have so many been fooled by so few. In a few decades, our planetary civilization probably will not exist: either way, we need a new system. Until there is a conversion to local decentralized administration and economic democracy and sustainability, there can be little improvement...or even hope. If we look outward, we can dream only a little- but if we look inward, our hearts can know.
The land bound by iron, four horsemen approach.
The antidote for apathy is enthusiasm- to produce enthusiasm one needs two things- an ideal, and a concrete plan that can drag the dream into existence...
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, dedicated people can change the world. Indeed, thats the only way it has ever been changed."-Anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Inchoate ?
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