I have been accused of talking about sustainability as a form of fantasy utopia. OK, forget about some Hollywood fantasy with everyone singing Kumbaya in some idyllic community that looks like heaven on Earth. Not that picture couldn’t exist, but not in any world humanity lives within for the foreseeable near future. Just as the dystopia we are currently in is not a real Hell on Earth yet, the utopia we can create is a more realistic one in which people can live more harmoniously with each other and with the natural world. But we, and I mean the full We, need to sit down with our families, friends and neighbors to choose what kind of life we want. We currently let elites make those choices for us and most would agree that their choices are anything but fair or equitable for humanity or the natural world as a whole.
For many reasons, we seem to have lost our ability to think critically and to step back from the daily events of our lives to see a balanced and reflective view of what is occurring around the world. So many seem so overwhelmed by potential negativity that they stop any discussions such that they look like a traumatized person holding themselves and rocking back and forth muttering hypnotizing mantras that give them some momentary comfort of normalcy. We have been encouraged (conditioned) to stay in a state of fear and worry that debilitates us, so we do not think, but simply react when prompted. We have forgotten our individual and collective power to control our world as we want it to be.
In all my classes, as the teacher, I tried to let my students empower themselves in whatever the topic material concerning sustainability was about. I didn’t give them the power (which is so hegemonic) but let them find their own empowerment. When you feel disempowered you follow the flock, but when you are self-empowered you are free to walk your own path. As I have said frequently, we are on the razors edge of change. Forget what life was like a mere 20 months ago, it has and is still changing despite the small misleading signs that it may return to an old sense of consumer normalcy. That world is almost gone as the next few months will show us more clearly. In this age of increasingly tight official narratives and extreme censorship, it should be obvious if you simply look at the singular mainstream narrative and compare it to alternate narratives that your individual freedoms, autonomy, personal and community sovereignty are at stake. Your willingness and ability to think and act autonomously are the very cornerstones of a sustainable society.
If you are still living comfortably, consider that while we know nearly a billion people in the Global south face hunger and starvation issues every day, it is odd to think that in one of the most affluent countries in the world, the USA, 1 in 9 Americans are food insecure every day! And this is becoming a growing problem in all industrialized countries. That alone if cause for you to stop and ponder the larger socio-political-economic realities now playing out in the world. During the Thanksgiving period in the USA last week, I re-read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I find that his existential perspectives, although criticized as dated by some modern psychologists and philosophers, still as relevant. He talks about the need for spiritual meaning as the central focus of life whatever the external circumstances may impose upon us. Indeed, his quote, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way” is the epitome of a sovereign being.
For many of us in these trying times, the way forward to a sustainable world is to choose what price we still pay to remain in a consumer society. I forget who said (it may have been Thomas Jefferson), but it essentially says, ‘What’s the price you pay for a high standard of living. That’s easy, you sacrifice the present for the future.’ Another philosopher, whose name I forget said that the highest threat to modern humans is not the myriad social and environmental problems, but people without purpose. In our rush and single mindedness to always have more stuff in our lives we have lost the reason for being alive. That inherent need for happiness, Love and meaning in our lives now and all the time, not some mythical time in the future. If consumerism is your purpose, how will that work for you once the economy collapses?
Our educational system for the most part is about accumulating information, and depending on your professional self being able to analyze and come to a focused solution of a problem. Even in research and development the push is to solve a problem. The masculine left brain is about problem solving, while the right brain is about using holistic process to find balance and harmony. How much you ‘know’ is rapidly becoming irrelevant when a simple gadget can give you all the informational answers you want at the touch of a few keystrokes. Unless we make creativity a choice, what is less taught, and likely to be taught even less so as we move into a more transhumanist world, is to be something that is beyond simple information and analysis – creative thinking. That something is the intuitive art of discernment and critical thinking in which we bring heart centered wisdom to the fore as our benchmark of understanding and decision making.
Our human minds are the most amazing biological instruments in the natural world, but they evolved in a harmonious balance with the natural world. Sadly, our left-brain creativity seems all too ready to ignore our amazing God-given right-brain creative talents in favor of transhumanism (the social and philosophical movement devoted to promoting the research and development of robust human-enhancement technologies). I believe that humans can best make the move to a sustainable world with meaning and purpose by following a natural path of creativity, but there are too many that believe that a reductionist technological path is the way. The former allows us to be sovereign individuals with critical thinking and discernment, while the latter demands our complete surrender to an authoritarian technocracy that proports to have all the answers that have to be accepted regardless of the absurdities. The early Christian church did this to gain full control of the masses.
Don’t believe it is happening today? Look at the logic behind the C19 jabs. You need to get the first two jabs to be safe from an invisible and as yet still vaguely identified virus. The third dose increases immunity, so after the fourth dose you’ll be protected. Once 80% of the population has received the fifth dose, the restrictions can be relaxed as the sixth dose stops the virus from spreading. I am confident that the seventh dose will solve our problems and we’ll have no reason to fear the eighth dose. The clinical phase of the ninth dose will confirm that the antibodies remain stable after the tenth dose. The eleventh dose will ensure that no new mutations will develop, so there is no longer any reason to criticize the twelfth dose, etc. There are a lot of assumptions that no one is allowed to question in the mainstream narrative. This seems similar for any topic you choose. The technocrats have the answers to all our problems and society blindly follows without any thought as to the real truth and whether it is appropriate technology. At least it improves mega-profits for the companies rolling out the technology all the while consolidating wealth to an increasingly smaller number of monetary elites. Quite a rant this week, more practical focus to come.
To Be Continued …………………….
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