I'd like to think that you and I - along with so many others - are living proof that humankind as a whole is not the problem, but rather those in our ranks who have contrived to seize control of our societies for their own hellish ends.
The technosphere cannot exist without devouring the biosphere. We are biological so we are being devoured.
I still light my fires in my strawbale house in the forest and grow my food as the margins and edges usually have the dynamic to survive and be the agent for future repopulation post wildfires.
Worth repeating: “We face a future of genetically-modified embryos grown in artificial wombs and sold to de-sexed, de-natured, de-humanised locked-down smart-city couch-consumers whose data is harvested, whose lives are tracked, traced and traded, whose illnesses are a source of profit and whose deaths are medically accelerated, bringing to a premature end an existence that has been meaningless, virtual, sterile and soulless.”
“...fields and hills smothered with industrial solar panels and wind turbines before these fall apart and have to be buried elsewhere in Mother Earth’s defiled flesh.” — Long before the panels and turbines of the Greed New Deal, I had the unsettling sense — like most of your readers, I suspect — that, as a species, what we're best at in fact, is adding to landfills with terrifying, incalculable efficiency. To the point perhaps, that in the end, garbage will (quite literally) be our legacy; to the point perhaps, where Homo sapiens is nowhere near as appropriate as Homo detritus. But of course, as you suggest, it doesn't have to be this way.
What we"re best at, given the chance, is genius breakthroughs. Why else would we have deliberately dumbed down, conditioned through falsehoods to believe we're helpless victims of systems of state control over our lives? We are a threat to the money-monsters, why were thumb screws invented if not to prevent us from connecting our energies to the ethers? The old world knew of this connection, it is sacred. We cannot achieve much without realising that, in this Universe, there is no separation between us all, and our Source.
Right on ... the gulf between between potential and reality; between what we're best at "given the chance", and what we're best at, as things currently stand.
Thank you for expressing the state of things with such clarity and brevity.
With transhumanism and posthumanism (hell how does the word even exist?) now becoming real possibilities, I think it is fair to say that we are now seeing the fulfilment of this aphorism of Emil Cioran's:
“In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.”
You are very close to the ethical center of the problem. I've always thought of corporatism as the basis for the industrial revolution. Certainly, corporate pollution is the destructive result of industrialism, but it is based on a fictive corporate structure of usury. When we buy stock, we are lending money at interest. I believe it is the corporate system that is crashing, and the dollar along with it. In the constitution, silver and gold is the money of the United States. We have both to stabilize price fluctuations in one or the other metal. Fiat dollars have never been money, but are tender (something you can offer in a trade). When you accept dollars in a trade, you exercise faith and trust that someone else will also accept those dollars in a trade. Your risk is monetizable. Because faith and trust is so expensive these days, prices are going up. Pretty soon, we're going to be all out of faith and trust. Legally, corporations are fiction. Dollars are contracts representing incorporated debt. Every dollar is based on corporate fiction. At base, our problem is that we are treating fiction as fact. When all the corporate fiction has collapsed we will understand what is real, and we'll understand the damage that corporate usury does, and that it is the tool of Satan. It's Babylonian money magic. We are all enthralled with the belief in dollars. Think of all the evil activity that has been based on the wrong belief in dollars over the last 100 years. That charm is about to expire. The carriage of corporatism is going to turn back into the pumpkin of reality.
“Ludwig Klages, too, described how “the will that emancipates itself from life, and imperiously enslaves it, brings forth evil (the despicable, the satanic)”, warning of “this Mammon which is taking hold of humankind as a tool with which to eliminate every form of terrestrial life”. “ A strikingly apt definition of AI?
I enjoyed your essay. I notice lately my frustration with people's inability to think beyond the confines of their own cultural abstractions. Have most people not experienced other cultures, indigenous ceremony, or any liminal or emergent phenomena in their lives? Do people not experience inspiration, flow states, camaraderie, or useful work anymore? Does anyone meditate to quiet the mind's chatter? Can people even imagine languages with different vocabulary, worldview, or syntax? Western civilization may not be so much under attack as just out of ideas, a victim of the sterility of its own domination.
It's definitely time to abandon the for profit system and replace it - not with the one from Davos - but one with the best interests of humanity and the environment in mind.
So even though I'm not religious, the Amish community in the US have stuck to a environmentally friendly lifestyle with minimal damage to the planet.
If we persist in failing to identify that it was/is Our Thought the inventer of "gods"... We'll never be able to live in Balance within Nature.
Another creation of our Thought is the MONETARY SYSTEM. From this Thought alone derives all the sets of divisions (that are causing conflicts). And we are happily inventing labels after labels for those divisions. Industrialism is just another one of those.
For short... Our Thought is in itself the manifestation of the Unbalance (aka 'Evil').
Deindustrialisation aka The Great Reset aka the 'Clean' Energy revolution is also a manifestation of Evil. Admittedly, 'deindustrialisation' here is defined as the destruction of efficient, wealth producing, useful, job creating industries in favour of useless, inefficient, even more environmentally damaging, wealth destroying/redistributing Green industries. But it's definitely evil.
That is false deindustrialisation, a mask for further unending industrialisation across the world as the necessary foundation for the criminocracy's digital enslavement of humankind. As I say in the article, in fact, as you may or may not have noticed. There can be nothing evil about going back to natural and authentic living, once the system's deceit is removed from the equation.
Our globalist enemies are using deindustrialization as a pretext for their murder mission. What we should do is abandon industrial farming before it kills us. When shipping becomes impossible or cost prohibitive, local manufacture will rule. Traditional American (and Mexican) farming practices might save us.
Yes, the usual inversion and manipulation - the historical Nazis used back-to-the-land traditionalist sentiment to create a modernising regime that built motorways and fed the pharmaceutical and armaments industries.
I trust that Mother Earth will eventually eradicate us, as it has been doing to every species that threatened the equilibrium. The ultimate conceit is to believe that we can destroy life itself on the planet. Surely we can create temporary inconveniences, but our hubris doesn't even measure in the great scheme of the cosmos.
I keep on reading horrified accounts on "fertility rates dropping", low male sperm count, women who don't want to bear children, but somehow nobody seems to connect it to nature's blind wisdom.
We have observed that species may take years to procreate if the environment they live in is deemed dangerous for life (eels, for example, won't even develop sexual organs until they arrive at the safety of the Sargasso Sea, and it may take many years), but the notion that we are subject to the very same laws is considered laughable by the advocates of the egotistical ubermensch.
It will all blow on our faces, in the most horrific way.
If the species survives, and maintains some intelligence and spirituality, humans will revert to the only religion that ever had meaning: animism
No, it's not what we want. But how to break away from the industrial enslavement when its alien acid-for-blood tentacles are wrapped around everything? We are welded to it from birth - now more than ever. The System has everyone locked-in and zombified.
Where are the radiant alternatives? Where is the ankh and sanctuary? Where is the imaginative worldwide wonder widget that could 'go viral' and generate a tsunami of 'organic radical' inspired change? We NEED Empowering Inspiring Soulful Solutions.
Sorry, Paul. My comment (and 'shout' emphasis) wasn't intended as criticism of you - it was my exasperation at the world (and myself) in response to your fine article.
If I could come up with some empowering innovative solutions myself, I would. That's the nullifying road block we all seem to face.
Not everyone is locked in and zombified! Many of us already have vast inner freedom! People make industrial systems, some can't live without them, I see it as a choice to be made as the rapidly awakening collective consciousness exponentially becomes higher and wider. It's happening right now!
I agree that the awakening collective consciousness is happening - I just wish it would happen much much faster! I don't detect any peaceful uprising or revolutionary ripples. We're trapped in the 'Twilight Zone' of the Narcoleptic New Normal with its relentless Orwellian False Dystopian Narrative. We may have inner freedom but the world is under technocratic totalitarian siege.
If the legacy media would openly tell the truth we'd be looking at a different story! This world is truly illusory, it feels real to those who make it real, in the same way being in a physical body feels apparently separate from other physical bodies...a belief system is an agreement and agreements can be changed. Be in the world, but not of it. You do have a choice!
While I have a fair bit of sympathy for your perspective, I am not sure I entirely agree that industrialization is entirely evil in and of itself.
My own view is that the root of the problem lies in our society's values and the laws and institutions we have created which embody them.
So there is nothing wrong with profit. However when profit is pursued in a society which permits theft then the result is a great deal of theft. Is pursuit of profit the problem, or the value system which condones and legalizes theft? Surely the latter?
The same is true of industrialization. When it is permitted to damage land, pollute the environment, and prevent by law and regulation people from pursuing self employment (thus forcing them into a labor pool for capitalists to exploit) then the industrialization which results serves no-one but its owners.
But if the laws were just then you might see a very different form and quantity of industrialization which served all of us (and harmed none) instead of just the few.
Great piece. I agree with most of what you say, but don’t you think depopulation, disease or climate change, which is currently terraforming our planet as we speak. 8 billion people live on a sliver of 30% land, the rest is oceans and we lost 21 trillion tons of Ice from the North Pole in the last decade, and Twaites glazier, the size of Florida is detaching from the South Pole, yet Florida, which is the fastest sinking state in the Union, always votes for climate deniers, blissfully ignorant of their situation, whilst shamelessly accepting FEMA checks for $630 million. Go figure.
I'd like to think that you and I - along with so many others - are living proof that humankind as a whole is not the problem, but rather those in our ranks who have contrived to seize control of our societies for their own hellish ends.
The technosphere cannot exist without devouring the biosphere. We are biological so we are being devoured.
I still light my fires in my strawbale house in the forest and grow my food as the margins and edges usually have the dynamic to survive and be the agent for future repopulation post wildfires.
Worth repeating: “We face a future of genetically-modified embryos grown in artificial wombs and sold to de-sexed, de-natured, de-humanised locked-down smart-city couch-consumers whose data is harvested, whose lives are tracked, traced and traded, whose illnesses are a source of profit and whose deaths are medically accelerated, bringing to a premature end an existence that has been meaningless, virtual, sterile and soulless.”
“...fields and hills smothered with industrial solar panels and wind turbines before these fall apart and have to be buried elsewhere in Mother Earth’s defiled flesh.” — Long before the panels and turbines of the Greed New Deal, I had the unsettling sense — like most of your readers, I suspect — that, as a species, what we're best at in fact, is adding to landfills with terrifying, incalculable efficiency. To the point perhaps, that in the end, garbage will (quite literally) be our legacy; to the point perhaps, where Homo sapiens is nowhere near as appropriate as Homo detritus. But of course, as you suggest, it doesn't have to be this way.
What we"re best at, given the chance, is genius breakthroughs. Why else would we have deliberately dumbed down, conditioned through falsehoods to believe we're helpless victims of systems of state control over our lives? We are a threat to the money-monsters, why were thumb screws invented if not to prevent us from connecting our energies to the ethers? The old world knew of this connection, it is sacred. We cannot achieve much without realising that, in this Universe, there is no separation between us all, and our Source.
Right on ... the gulf between between potential and reality; between what we're best at "given the chance", and what we're best at, as things currently stand.
"Homo detritus". The height of glory!
Thank you for expressing the state of things with such clarity and brevity.
With transhumanism and posthumanism (hell how does the word even exist?) now becoming real possibilities, I think it is fair to say that we are now seeing the fulfilment of this aphorism of Emil Cioran's:
“In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.”
You are very close to the ethical center of the problem. I've always thought of corporatism as the basis for the industrial revolution. Certainly, corporate pollution is the destructive result of industrialism, but it is based on a fictive corporate structure of usury. When we buy stock, we are lending money at interest. I believe it is the corporate system that is crashing, and the dollar along with it. In the constitution, silver and gold is the money of the United States. We have both to stabilize price fluctuations in one or the other metal. Fiat dollars have never been money, but are tender (something you can offer in a trade). When you accept dollars in a trade, you exercise faith and trust that someone else will also accept those dollars in a trade. Your risk is monetizable. Because faith and trust is so expensive these days, prices are going up. Pretty soon, we're going to be all out of faith and trust. Legally, corporations are fiction. Dollars are contracts representing incorporated debt. Every dollar is based on corporate fiction. At base, our problem is that we are treating fiction as fact. When all the corporate fiction has collapsed we will understand what is real, and we'll understand the damage that corporate usury does, and that it is the tool of Satan. It's Babylonian money magic. We are all enthralled with the belief in dollars. Think of all the evil activity that has been based on the wrong belief in dollars over the last 100 years. That charm is about to expire. The carriage of corporatism is going to turn back into the pumpkin of reality.
“Ludwig Klages, too, described how “the will that emancipates itself from life, and imperiously enslaves it, brings forth evil (the despicable, the satanic)”, warning of “this Mammon which is taking hold of humankind as a tool with which to eliminate every form of terrestrial life”. “ A strikingly apt definition of AI?
Yes, I'd say so.
I enjoyed your essay. I notice lately my frustration with people's inability to think beyond the confines of their own cultural abstractions. Have most people not experienced other cultures, indigenous ceremony, or any liminal or emergent phenomena in their lives? Do people not experience inspiration, flow states, camaraderie, or useful work anymore? Does anyone meditate to quiet the mind's chatter? Can people even imagine languages with different vocabulary, worldview, or syntax? Western civilization may not be so much under attack as just out of ideas, a victim of the sterility of its own domination.
Yes, exactly. We're in a real dead end on so many levels.
Well stated as always.
It's definitely time to abandon the for profit system and replace it - not with the one from Davos - but one with the best interests of humanity and the environment in mind.
So even though I'm not religious, the Amish community in the US have stuck to a environmentally friendly lifestyle with minimal damage to the planet.
I am happy to have discovered your journal. The revolution is ethical.
If we persist in failing to identify that it was/is Our Thought the inventer of "gods"... We'll never be able to live in Balance within Nature.
Another creation of our Thought is the MONETARY SYSTEM. From this Thought alone derives all the sets of divisions (that are causing conflicts). And we are happily inventing labels after labels for those divisions. Industrialism is just another one of those.
For short... Our Thought is in itself the manifestation of the Unbalance (aka 'Evil').
I so, so, sooooooooooo agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vehemently, with teeth bared and growling...
Good post, as always, and well-written, as always, and as always, FANGKS, Paul C. !!!!
xo xo
Deindustrialisation aka The Great Reset aka the 'Clean' Energy revolution is also a manifestation of Evil. Admittedly, 'deindustrialisation' here is defined as the destruction of efficient, wealth producing, useful, job creating industries in favour of useless, inefficient, even more environmentally damaging, wealth destroying/redistributing Green industries. But it's definitely evil.
That is false deindustrialisation, a mask for further unending industrialisation across the world as the necessary foundation for the criminocracy's digital enslavement of humankind. As I say in the article, in fact, as you may or may not have noticed. There can be nothing evil about going back to natural and authentic living, once the system's deceit is removed from the equation.
Our globalist enemies are using deindustrialization as a pretext for their murder mission. What we should do is abandon industrial farming before it kills us. When shipping becomes impossible or cost prohibitive, local manufacture will rule. Traditional American (and Mexican) farming practices might save us.
Yes, the usual inversion and manipulation - the historical Nazis used back-to-the-land traditionalist sentiment to create a modernising regime that built motorways and fed the pharmaceutical and armaments industries.
I trust that Mother Earth will eventually eradicate us, as it has been doing to every species that threatened the equilibrium. The ultimate conceit is to believe that we can destroy life itself on the planet. Surely we can create temporary inconveniences, but our hubris doesn't even measure in the great scheme of the cosmos.
I keep on reading horrified accounts on "fertility rates dropping", low male sperm count, women who don't want to bear children, but somehow nobody seems to connect it to nature's blind wisdom.
We have observed that species may take years to procreate if the environment they live in is deemed dangerous for life (eels, for example, won't even develop sexual organs until they arrive at the safety of the Sargasso Sea, and it may take many years), but the notion that we are subject to the very same laws is considered laughable by the advocates of the egotistical ubermensch.
It will all blow on our faces, in the most horrific way.
If the species survives, and maintains some intelligence and spirituality, humans will revert to the only religion that ever had meaning: animism
No, it's not what we want. But how to break away from the industrial enslavement when its alien acid-for-blood tentacles are wrapped around everything? We are welded to it from birth - now more than ever. The System has everyone locked-in and zombified.
Where are the radiant alternatives? Where is the ankh and sanctuary? Where is the imaginative worldwide wonder widget that could 'go viral' and generate a tsunami of 'organic radical' inspired change? We NEED Empowering Inspiring Soulful Solutions.
Well yeah. Trying to sow a little philosophical seed here...
You succeeded!
Sorry, Paul. My comment (and 'shout' emphasis) wasn't intended as criticism of you - it was my exasperation at the world (and myself) in response to your fine article.
If I could come up with some empowering innovative solutions myself, I would. That's the nullifying road block we all seem to face.
Not everyone is locked in and zombified! Many of us already have vast inner freedom! People make industrial systems, some can't live without them, I see it as a choice to be made as the rapidly awakening collective consciousness exponentially becomes higher and wider. It's happening right now!
I agree that the awakening collective consciousness is happening - I just wish it would happen much much faster! I don't detect any peaceful uprising or revolutionary ripples. We're trapped in the 'Twilight Zone' of the Narcoleptic New Normal with its relentless Orwellian False Dystopian Narrative. We may have inner freedom but the world is under technocratic totalitarian siege.
If the legacy media would openly tell the truth we'd be looking at a different story! This world is truly illusory, it feels real to those who make it real, in the same way being in a physical body feels apparently separate from other physical bodies...a belief system is an agreement and agreements can be changed. Be in the world, but not of it. You do have a choice!
Oh those dark Satanic mills! :-)
While I have a fair bit of sympathy for your perspective, I am not sure I entirely agree that industrialization is entirely evil in and of itself.
My own view is that the root of the problem lies in our society's values and the laws and institutions we have created which embody them.
So there is nothing wrong with profit. However when profit is pursued in a society which permits theft then the result is a great deal of theft. Is pursuit of profit the problem, or the value system which condones and legalizes theft? Surely the latter?
The same is true of industrialization. When it is permitted to damage land, pollute the environment, and prevent by law and regulation people from pursuing self employment (thus forcing them into a labor pool for capitalists to exploit) then the industrialization which results serves no-one but its owners.
But if the laws were just then you might see a very different form and quantity of industrialization which served all of us (and harmed none) instead of just the few.
Great piece. I agree with most of what you say, but don’t you think depopulation, disease or climate change, which is currently terraforming our planet as we speak. 8 billion people live on a sliver of 30% land, the rest is oceans and we lost 21 trillion tons of Ice from the North Pole in the last decade, and Twaites glazier, the size of Florida is detaching from the South Pole, yet Florida, which is the fastest sinking state in the Union, always votes for climate deniers, blissfully ignorant of their situation, whilst shamelessly accepting FEMA checks for $630 million. Go figure.