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Davy on Tue, 24th Jan 2017 7:29 am

What we have ahead is the perfect storm of BAD. We have the economy, ecosystem, climate, and our civilization on a negative trend. This at the same time we are deceiving ourselves with techno optimism of an opposite direction. Our status quo is pumping out hopium and delusions of plenty. This type of spectacles is playing out globally. In the past civilizations that exhausted themselves had new places to move to both physical and mental. We are now systematically and ecologically at the end of the line. A planet has been consumed and a vital climate abruptly altered.

Many of us who are honest and see things for what they are feel this. We know this is going to end badly. We try to tell others but it is of little use. The world is on a gradient with momentum. It is lost in false vision of a manifest destiny. The inertia of limits and diminishing returns to problem solving has swung the existential momentum towards collapse. No amount of talk will change that. Our social narrative has not yet adapted even though science is clearly telling us of this end.

We can adapt somewhat. If we adapt we can mitigate some of the pain and suffering. Most of what is coming can’t be solved. There are no solutions to predicaments. We will pay a price for our hubris of knowledge and individual advancement. Market based capitalism and liberal democracy ensured we would take life to the limit and we did. Wow was it wonderful. This is beyond a political fix like we had in earlier generations. This is about natural consequences. We are so far into a hole of insanity that there is little hope at the top. Civilization is completely lost in itself from religion to academia.

Where there is still meaning is you as an individual. Meaning has always resided in the heart. It is when we look for meaning outside ourselves at times like this we get lost. Find a good place and good people. Practice relative sacrifice. Downsize with dignity if the circumstances allow. If you want to preach about this tell those who will listen but you are deluding yourself if you think you can change the world. Begin your hospice of spirit. Get ready for a new reality of death along with decline and decay. This will likely not be a Hollywood freak movie so in addition stop the fantasy. Long periods of tedious uncomfortable boredom will be punctuated by terror and loss. The other option is walk cavalierly into the jaws of death enjoying life while you can as you are. Many have a rich and wonderful life but that will surely not last with all the existential traps ahead for our global civilization. You can’t build a civilization into a global racket with no future and expect anything to shake out good from that. The best we can hope for is a shallow decline and a reasonable die off. This type of circumstance will be difficult to manage by people who have grown weak in spirit and with bodies fat and lazy. We still might have hope to strengthen mind and spirit in the boot camp of reality ahead.