Visions

I am not an idealist. If you take a step back from the human frame of reference and objectively analyze the Earth this is what you find: one tail-less primate species concentrating 40% of the global ecosystem's primary productivity primarily by the domination of 3 grasses (wheat, rice, and corn). This immense translocation of global energy has resulted in the 6th great mass extinction in the Earth's 4.6 billion year history and the first to be of biotic rather than abiotic origin.

This is not stable for obvious reasons. Equilibrium is reached when energy is randomly distributed evenly throughout a system. The essence of civilization is to consolidate resources to the top of a hierarchy. To demonstrate the stability of hierarchy vs. anarchy imagine 20 building blocks stacked one on top of each other forming a tall column vs. the same blocks scattered randomly on the ground. Expose these two systems to wind and you can envision which one is permanent and which is ephemeral in your own mind.


"Anarchy is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."-Edward Abbey

Most people today are delusional and in a state of denial. Some believe that their way of life can continue indefinitely even when the signs are everywhere that things have gone way too far in this high-tech empire. Here we are experiencing the highest level of societal complexity ever achieved and people are more miserable than ever relying on pills to experience the joy that is our natural stable emotional state. More evidence of delusion: liberals actually believing they are working towards a peaceful society. I have news: peace is impossible within a community larger than one in which you can't know everyone personally. We all have very different personal truths and ways of perceiving the world. Nations that boast of being "united" are propagating a tremendous lie: that the people in power have the same interests as the people in the streets and the fields. And the greatest example of flagrant delusion in the face of unsurmountable evidence: the belief that intelligence/consciousness (which haven't existed for more than a few million years) designed/planned all of existence, or that "meaning" is anything more than a word we've created in our minds.

Humans will either achieve some degree of stability or go extinct. A massive change in consciousness would be necessary to find balance. Life in civilization is so frantic that people have polarized mentalities, a good example being the prevalence of both obesity and anorexia. Balance is the key to maintaining happiness and health yet civilization is characterized by exuberant erratic growth. On the insane track of civilized "progress" only two things are possible: more growth or destruction (and growth is finite). Within the eternal ebb and flow of the Earth absolutely anything is possible. Choose your own adventure.