tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171819014533667083.post215767626280135916..comments2023-12-15T05:00:28.872-06:00Comments on DIVINE PRIMATES: Cultural Solutions for Sustainable LivingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17526810275758534500noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171819014533667083.post-27584238504938430242010-01-16T11:36:05.868-06:002010-01-16T11:36:05.868-06:00Just posted on the MAHB Blog.....
Stewart Brand...Just posted on the MAHB Blog.....<br /><br /><br /><br />Stewart Brand reports, <br /><br />"We are as gods and have to get good at it."<br /><br />I hope Stewart will forgive me for saying that he has elucidated at least one of the problems humanity faces now. It appears the formidable global challenges that loom before the human community in our time are likely the result of distinctly human activities borne of extreme foolishness, pathological arrogance, unbridled greed and malignant narcissism. To be a species with such remarkable self-consciousness, intelligence and other splendid gifts and to do no better than we are doing now is a source of deep sadness and occasional outbreaks of passionate intensity (likely signifying nothing).<br /><br />The first fifty years of my life were lived as if in a dream world in which humans believe and act like gods, a profane world devised by the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe among us. I had no awareness a single generation would elect sponsors of powerful, greed-mongering economic powerbrokers who would formulate policies and implement business plans that irreversibly degrade Earth's environs, recklessly dissipate its limited resources, relentlessly diminish its biodiversity, destabilize its climate and threaten the very future of children everywhere. My failures include not realizing that my selfish generation were hyperconsuming and excessively hoarding resources, ravaging the Earth, and effectively behaving in a way that could soon lead to the destruction of our planetary home as a fit place for habitation by the children. Even though it is discomforting and difficult to responsibly perform our duties to science and humanity, at least we can speak out loudly, clearly and often about these unfortunate circumstances and in the process educate one another as best we can. Like you, I do not have answers to forbidding questions related to the patently unsustainable 'trajectory' of human civilization in its present, colossally expansive form that has been organized by and for the benefit of the Masters of the Universe. Much more problematic, however, is the ruinous determination of many too many experts who have colluded with the Masters of the Universe to obstruct open discussion of the best available scientific evidence of "what could somehow be real". If what could be real about the human condition and the Earth we inhabit is not confronted with intellectual honesty and moral courage, how is it possible for the family of humanity to adapt to the practical requirements of "reality" in reasonable, sensible, sustainable and timely ways?<br /><br />An ecological wreckage of some unimaginable sort is likely to be the end result of experts choosing to embrace false common knowledge and to remain willfully blind, hysterically deaf and electively mute rather than skillfully examining and objectively reporting on extant science of human population dynamics and the human overpopulation of our evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home. This refusal to respond ably by acknowledging evidence and accepting responsibility for the human-driven global challenges that have emerged robustly and converged rapidly just now could be one of the greatest mistakes in human history. After all, what mistake in history could be greater than the ones made in our time by those self-indulgent Masters of the Universe and their many minions who are knowingly leading humanity down a primorse path, perhaps to precipitate the inadvertent demise of life as we know it and to put at risk a good enough future for the children?<br /><br />We have entered not only a new year but a new decade as well. Hopefully the deafening silence, disinformation, dishonesty, denial and ideological idiocy that marked the last decade have ended.SESALMONY@aol.comhttp://www.panearth.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171819014533667083.post-58781957358680532432010-01-01T07:56:43.339-06:002010-01-01T07:56:43.339-06:00Thanks, Laura. I've come to see the power of ...Thanks, Laura. I've come to see the power of culture, how it can get out of whack, and how it can help bring us back in balance. The idea of a business or leader being too big or important to fail - regardless of their actually having completely failed - undermines our entire value system. <br /><br />Like you said, it's time to accept responsibility. <br /><br />Have a wonderful 2010!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526810275758534500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4171819014533667083.post-7508237176937218732009-12-31T12:24:59.544-06:002009-12-31T12:24:59.544-06:00Having a black belt in Al-Anon myself, I appreciat...Having a black belt in Al-Anon myself, I appreciate this adaptation of the 12 steps. It is all about accepting responsibility! And everyone should. People sometimes get complacent and get the idea that one person's efforts don't make a difference, but they do.Laura Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09604189487671787659noreply@blogger.com