You have given a great summary of why the world is at a turning point. "Yet big changes are well in motion, pointing to unforeseen possibilities." But safe drinking water and food may not result in the flat utopia of a borderless " ...society with no police and military. Systems of governance and trade without the current economic, racial and political barriers." William Rees used to recount that there has never been an agrarian society without an underclass to do the hard work. But the one thing that may be "accomplished" will be a much small human population to do its damage to the natural world. Because we don't seem to be planning an orderly transition I assume it will be chaotic. Focus now on the needs of the natural world, what is left of it.
Hi Peace. Negative Messianism is an awakening, of a part of our consciousness, to what was “improbable” might in fact happen, in most cases pushes us down towards subjective negativity or nihilism. Is what exactly certain people you refer to, are doing. The world will not change as we wish it would. Also N,M, has become an economy by itself, as seen in a wide range of climate-fiction, climate-science discourses as well climate-speak, climate news within mainstream media. Thousands of bad-news messages verified by science does not make us any smarter. This endless injection of doom, bad news and paranoia, or lofty techno-fix images of the future, are not only self-destructive but totally useless for most people, who have to live and survive, one way or another.
Ooof phone typing grrrr 🤣 was pondering whether we can step back yet another 5 paces to ponder on all this, with an even more ample sense of what's happening? Each act of working to contextualise the situation brings something new - which, if not always hopeful, could at least offer some calm as we act?
Hi Caroline. I am afraid I cannot answer your question, yet with good intentions, I can ask you divest from the mainstream, be it media or climate-scare or political-doom. These are forces which are succeeding, to influence us, about a future that is not at all what they claim or envision. I wrote the above story with the intent to tell people like yourself, that one has to create their own meanings, of the society and world they belong to, and that is being severely busted when we turn to messianic figures, discourses, books etc, be they positive or negative.
You have given a great summary of why the world is at a turning point. "Yet big changes are well in motion, pointing to unforeseen possibilities." But safe drinking water and food may not result in the flat utopia of a borderless " ...society with no police and military. Systems of governance and trade without the current economic, racial and political barriers." William Rees used to recount that there has never been an agrarian society without an underclass to do the hard work. But the one thing that may be "accomplished" will be a much small human population to do its damage to the natural world. Because we don't seem to be planning an orderly transition I assume it will be chaotic. Focus now on the needs of the natural world, what is left of it.
Hi Peace. Negative Messianism is an awakening, of a part of our consciousness, to what was “improbable” might in fact happen, in most cases pushes us down towards subjective negativity or nihilism. Is what exactly certain people you refer to, are doing. The world will not change as we wish it would. Also N,M, has become an economy by itself, as seen in a wide range of climate-fiction, climate-science discourses as well climate-speak, climate news within mainstream media. Thousands of bad-news messages verified by science does not make us any smarter. This endless injection of doom, bad news and paranoia, or lofty techno-fix images of the future, are not only self-destructive but totally useless for most people, who have to live and survive, one way or another.
Thanks for the tight roundup of links and ideas. The zoom-out is important - and I wonder if we can str even further back?
Hi and thanks for reading. Not sure what do you mean by "wonder if we can str even further back? "
Ooof phone typing grrrr 🤣 was pondering whether we can step back yet another 5 paces to ponder on all this, with an even more ample sense of what's happening? Each act of working to contextualise the situation brings something new - which, if not always hopeful, could at least offer some calm as we act?
Hi Caroline. I am afraid I cannot answer your question, yet with good intentions, I can ask you divest from the mainstream, be it media or climate-scare or political-doom. These are forces which are succeeding, to influence us, about a future that is not at all what they claim or envision. I wrote the above story with the intent to tell people like yourself, that one has to create their own meanings, of the society and world they belong to, and that is being severely busted when we turn to messianic figures, discourses, books etc, be they positive or negative.