To some extent I don't want us to solve the climate crisis

The climate crisis is the tip of the iceberg. As a symptom of a disease finding solutions to the climate crisis with habitual criteria of cosmetics is not addressing the bigger issues: everything else must change too in order to achieve a permanent result.

On the surface, it is mostly the result of the Industrial revolution of the late XVIIIth century on. We have to go deeper though. It is the result of a mindset of exploitation and greed that has been going on for ages. So if resolving the climate issue ends up making sure we avoid thinking in a different manner how to behave on this planet we won't have learned a thing and it won't last long. Either the climate will still be problematic or the depletion of what's left of resources will make it even harder to survive.

For time immemorial we have been placed here to create a paradise and though over time attempts have been made to achieve this goal, those attempts usually did not last long either because envy and jealousy set in or the guidance given by those who created those spaces were not followed through which made them crumble.

There is no common goal which should be to live in harmony with nature. After all this is not by thinking of colonizing other planets that we will grow in wisdom, let alone make those potential planets more of the same that we have made this one become: a dump

Hierarchy should be based on spiritual values not on grand standing in a field, would that be in business or sciences or anything else. If those we call our leaders are among the worst behaved individuals everything else will follow that path. It is useless to come to terms with climate change if we don't change. Materialism and consumerism have either chocked or killed the idea of spirituality and the sacred. We are mere machines serving the goals of capitalism. 

I would not have taken such a stand before, for fear of being an easy target of laughters. Now it doesn't matter anymore because humans have lost all credibility and are on the verge of annihilating themselves and everything and everyone who did not ask for this or were certainly not consulted. I thus have nothing to lose in thinking differently.

Everything was given to us. Every piece of wisdom that we have to know to work out a paradise is known and yet we do mostly the contrary of the guidances painstakingly brought to us via phophets, wisemen and women. All we want is proof that we are not just an assembly of atoms by chance and though proof is what we find at every level of living things and a universe, it is not enough. Jesus was put to sleep with nails on a cross because he was threatening the power in place. 2000 years later we ain't smarter in any way. Oh yes, we discovered stuff but it is only applied if there is a buck to be made about it. That is our nowaday wisdom. At best this is mediocre and participate in our destruction.

Yesterday in Glascow we learned that 90 countries accept to end deforestation by the years 2030! Well, this is such an achievement... At the pace we're cutting the forest in acceleration it is going to be a race to finish the job and by then there might not be any forest left anyway. This "agreement" should have been an international convention at least five decades ago. This is how we advance the cause.

I am not about to announce the end of the world. I don't need to. The material world is only a tiny fraction of the whole spectrum of dimensions or planes on which we exist. But if we do not make this material world a better place we will not graduate to better planes. There is no issue. Our misfortune and hardship are of our own making. The rule of money is a construct.of our own making. This is not the way of the cosmos. Retribution exists on all planes but you won't find cash or credit card elsewhere.

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The Current with Matt Galloway
November 2, 2021
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere

How We Became Postmodern

by Stuart Jeffries

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

Postmodernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, postmodernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was the forcing ground of “post truth,” by means of which western values were turned upside down. But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world?

In this brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and still dominates our lives today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, among others: David Bowie, the iPod, Madonna, Jeff Koons’s the Nixon Shock, Judith Butler, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, Grand Master Flash, I Love Dick, the RAND Corporation, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, Grand Theft Auto, Jean Baudrillard, Netflix, and 9/11.

We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything other than suffer from buyer’s remorse?