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Thinking About the Unthinkable

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We have long lived in the faith that “nature does not set booby traps for unwary species,” as Robert Sinsheimer once noted.
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Reliance on capitalism, rooted in the metaphor of “invisible hands,” doesn’t clarify our plight much either. Humans are not the rational calculators assumed in economic models.
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To kill a human being is murder, but what crime is it to cancel the numberless multitude of un conceived people? In what court is such a crime to be judged? Against whom is it committed? . . . What standing should they have among us?”
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This is a case of what Hannah Arendt once called “radical evil,” which Schell interprets as evil that “goes beyond destroying individual victims and, in addition, destroys the world that can in some way respond to—and thus in some measure redeem—the deaths suffered.”
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We are now in the era that biologist E. O. Wilson has called “the bottleneck,” for which we have no precedent and no very useful example. I have faith that humankind will emerge someday chastened but improved.
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But deliverance will require more than astute science and a great deal more than smarter technology—both necessary but insufficient. Science can describe our situation down to parts per trillion and help to create better technologies, but it can give us no clear reason why we should want to survive, why we deserve to be sustained on Earth, or why we should worry about the lives or well-being of generations whose existence now hangs in the balance. That is rather the function of deeper senses that we catalog with words like “morality,” “ethics,” and “spirituality.”
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But what kind of morality or ethics is remotely adequate when measured against the time spans necessary to restabilize Earth’s systems? I do not know. But with each turn of the screw it will be tempting to avoid asking such questions and give in to trade-offs that privilege the living and damn those who reside only in the abstraction we call the future. And, for sure, there is no easy or perhaps good case to be made for current destitution except a bit more of it for the wealthy.
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Alcoholics Anonymous, for example, offers a twelve-step process to overcome addiction that begins with self-awareness and leads to a public confession of the problem, a reshaping of intention, the stabilizing influence of a support group, and a reclaiming of self-mastery to higher ends. The power of this narrative line is in the similarity between substance addiction and its collateral damages and our societal addictions to consumption, entertainment, and energy and their destructive effects on our places, selves, and children.
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we have quite underestimated the magnitude and speed of the human destruction of nature.
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It is easier, I think, to understand the reality of dilemmas in places that have historical ruins and are overlaid with memories of tragedies and misfortunes that testify to human fallibility, ignorance, arrogance, pride, overreach, and sometimes evil. Amid shopping malls, bustling freeways, and all of the accoutrements, paraphernalia, enticements, and gadgetry of a booming fantasy industry, it is harder to believe that sometimes things don’t work out because they simply cannot or that limits to desire and ambition might really exist.
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We are now engaged in a global debate about what it means to become “sustainable.” But no one knows how we might secure our increasingly tenuous presence on the Earth or what that will require of us. We have good reason to suspect, however, that the word “sustainable” must imply something deeper than merely the application of more technology and smarter economics. It is possible and perhaps even likely that more of the same “solutions” would only compound our tribulations. The effort to secure a decent human future, I think, must be built on the awareness of the connections that bind us to each other, to all life, and to all life to come. And in time, that awareness will transform our politics, laws, economics, philosophies, manner of living, worldviews, and politics.

... booby traps as Nietzsche noted ...
... "has not observed life ...
... the one who does not see ...
... the hand that kills" ...
... ignorant species like humans ...
... who worship mythological divinities ...
... are due to face sad surprises and delusion ...

... Reliance on capitalism ...
... is reliance in another type of mythology ...
... economics is a fraudulent religion just like any other ...

... In what court is such a crime to be judged? ...
... history of the troglodyte called "human" ...
... a brainless spineless creepy monkey with an attitude ...
... that adores shiny objects ...
... and fantasy men in the sky with a white beard ...
... who forgive their sins and genocides ...
... has shown that it is judged in the court of the winner ...
... the interesting thing about "nature" ...
... that godly and market worshiper church pigs have underestimated ...
... is that just like in their resource wars, there is no recourse in the judgment of nature ...

... “radical evil,” ...
... is the consequence of cults mobbing evil ...
... "cults" preach "inequality" of dignity ...
... inequality of dignity is mobbing towards nature ...
... "cults" preach capitalism rigged competition ...
... rigged capitalism is mobbing towards nature ...
... this two "cults of evil" are Christianity and monetary economics ...

... I have faith ...
... I don't but I realize every permutation and combination reoccurs ...
... there is no need of god or faith for combinations and permutations ...
... regardless weather this human species will go extinct or not ...
... the universe has time the monkey with an attitude can not buy at any price ...
... "god died" ...
... god will disappear with the churches of falsity and their money changers ...
... but the universe will survive the brain challenged ...
... godly monkeys with an attitude ...
... in silence ...

... positives such as “spirituality.” ...
... should never be matched with negatives such “morality,” “ethics,” ...
... especially the twisted “morality,” “ethics,” of religions and monetary economics ...
... the later have produced the problem ...
... "Christian" twisted ethics are responsible of genocides and depletion of earth resources for their holy wars plans ...
... "Christian" twisted ethics are responsible of wars of resources to perpetuate themselves ...
... "Christian" twisted ethics are responsible of irresponsible reproduction to perpetuate their slavery plan ...
... monetary twisted society is responsible of the wars of resources to perpetuate itself ...
... monetary twisted society is responsible of wealth destruction for it's vulture agenda ...
... monetary twisted society is responsible of irresponsible reproduction for its slavery agenda...
... as GBS said, "history has proven that we don't learn anything from history" ...

... what kind of morality or ethics ...
... the question proves the points above ...
... religious and monetary "morality or ethics" are "irrelevant" ...
... they become relevant only to their domination agenda ...
... religion and monetary systems are resources sinks ...
... all they do is producing geometrical waste of resources ...
... their people a bunch of lazy theater actors that could not do any usable job ...
... two classes of social parasites ...

... a twelve-step process ...
... GBS wrote "the road to hell is paved of good intentions" ...
... but if it works for you, here is a "condensed" version ...
... of the steps for "petroleum anonymous" (open one in your suburbia cul de sack): ...
... - We admitted we were powerless over petroleum, our lives had become unmanageable ...
... - Came to believe that only technocracy and logistics could restore us to sanity ...
... - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of reason ...
... - Made a searching and fearless inventory of our history
... - Made a list of all countries, races and civilizations we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all ...
... - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other petroleum addicted ...

... underestimated ...
... especially the effects of irresponsible procreation ...

... historical ruins ...
... this is nothing, hon, you ain't seen "it" "yet" ...
... this is not even the appetizer ...
... wait to see the first serving ...
... make sure you wear diapers for the circumstance ...

... no one knows ...
... we monkeys with an attitude perfectly know ...
... but don't have any intention to lose the grip on the bone of wealth ...
... built into our power machines, idolatry and usury ...
... our "standard of living" is "not negotiable" ...
... we don't have any intention to give up on our mobbing attitude ...
... built into the lies of our religions and social "myths" ...
... since we know we are a "superior" race ...
... we have been brainwashed since birth to "know" about our "superiority" ...
... and we realize that all are due to be our slaves ...
... and bow in front of our ignorance and arrogance ...
... so we will keep reminding all our ungodly subjects ...
... of our grandness, with our uneducated superior shitty attitude ...

... we will not be ready for the transition on time ...
... we don't give a damn about the transition ...
... all we care is embezzling more money to build more churches ...
... and convert the sinners or make them "non beings" ...
... f**k the homeless veterans in the streets ...
... f**k the foreigners, all "inferior" to our "superiority" ...
... f**k the hungry, the poor and the sick ...
... "god" wants us to be slave masters of the universe ...
... we American don't need a transition time ...
... because our "superior" wall street puppet masters ...
... can do in a cheaper way with a few FEMA extermination camps, genocides and wars instead ...
... "profitability" and "godliness" come first to anything ...
... we are under god, god wants us to murder the "infidels" ...
... and, by the way, give us back our slaves and sheets ...

amun (ra)
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