[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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