The World After Industrial Civilization Goes

[robertpaulsen]

The World After Industrial Civilization Goes

by Jan Lundberg
20 October 2011

Author Keith Farnish has a problem with Western Civilization. So do I. I mean, Mozart is all well and good, but destroying the planet through industrialism and growth isn't quite worth civilization's accomplishments. Or is extinction a small price to pay for our glorious expansion? The downsides are hard-wired to the dominant culture.

Even if sustainability were not a critical issue, for anyone to have to pay to live on Earth is a ridiculous notion for a society to undertake. But this is our brilliant system, whereby people are conditioned to compete and buy into their own slavery. Abandoning nature in order to have to buy pieces of it as commodities is inefficiency and waste of the tallest order. Modern man is demonstrably stupid to rely on unnecessary slavery, whereas any animal smart enough to survive in the wild cannot be stupid and is no kind of slave.

One form of human enslavement is to tolerate massive pollution, such as the sum of greenhouse gas output from the technological giants China and the U.S. One can surmise that those of us who sit by and do not lift a finger lack a "survival gene" in our evolutionarily strange times.

more...

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/785/1/

[bengalherder]

1. k&r n/t

[tama]

2. Kick

[pscot]

3. The stupid gene

trumps the survival gene. We're sleep-walking into the abyss.

[Zyzfyx]

4. Eyes wide open, actually

You know, like Michele Bachmann when she sees God.