[permaculture] Society's downward spiral...

Keith Johnson keithdj at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 24 12:24:12 EDT 2008


  Written by Jan Lundberg - Culture Change Letter #206, Oct. 18, 2008

"Having money and material things for security is rapidly expiring. The 
expiration date for consumer culture and materialism could be 2009, 2012 
or later, but the exact date is not the point of this prediction. We 
can't claim it's far off if we're honest about observable trends. So 
it's time to get off our asses and separate ourselves from those who are 
constipated and are hopelessly in denial. The alternative is to take 
one's drug of choice to the extent one can afford, and revel in 
gratifying consumption such as a juicy steak.

The non-money culture has to begin now. Impossible? Well, maybe for you, 
so you must get out of the way and be bid adieu. People have been 
extricating themselves from Babylon for a long time as individuals and 
small groups finding real community closer to nature.

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of us live day-to-day routines of 
desperate existence. If anyone believes their life in an urban U.S. 
"community" is better than that, they're delusional. How can it be a 
delusion be when money buys happiness and freedom? Well, anyone 
ingesting plastics and radiation (most of us today) is getting screwed. 
We want to believe we're taking minute risks in exchange for 
techno-bliss. Piss on it and walk away from the fray. Those who have 
awakened do not need further explication or convincing. Preparedness for 
petrocollapse and climate chaos is the only sensible course.

Society's downward spiral must play out before positive social change 
kicks in, which it will -- like gangbusters. We pick up the pieces. Many 
columns and short stories from Culture Change have described this 
process in an as optimistic fashion as reality can merit. It is up to 
you to make it better or succumb to the tragic script others have 
written for humanity and all life as we know it."

Read the whole article here. 
<http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=226&Itemid=1>

-- 
Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
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