Where In The World Can Loving People Go And Be Left Alone
This is the reality we are living in:
The World Has Already Ended
How Social Engineering Drives Technology
With all of the ominous challenges we are facing, people are still arguing about who killed Kenedy. You'd laugh if you heard me say that in a casual social context. It’s a joke, a bitter ironic joke—a protective tonic.
Patrick Lawrence: What Died 60 Years Ago?
Most of us are apologists for business-as-usual. We may not be as intelligent or educated as Steven Pinker, but we do our part.
What we lost, we lost long before what we lost due to the assassinations of the 1960s, through dozens of choices, big and small, and uncompromising faith in a system that would always destroy visions of peace and cooperation among peoples and nations.
What kinds of democracies have we known since ancient Greece? What has come of modern democratic social experiments or any other social systems we’ve tried since the dawn of fossil capitalism?
What did international cooperation look like before modernity? We have no idea what it's like to be hunter-gatherers. With the exception of some indigenous and isolated groups that have existed and survived in small, remote pockets of the world, we have no idea what their values were or how they felt about life. We have not inherited mythologies from their like. We know only civilization and its demands, and it demands everything.
This is because this is.
We are nothing but human capital. Anyone wanting a system that would elevate the human spirit, that of love, compassion, cooperation, deep imagination, creativity, and amazement, is always crushed beneath the requirements of "Capital." Capitalism requires the commodification of everything and, ultimately, the transformation of life into a dead machine with no purpose but to consume. It is the metaphorical black hole at the center of lust.
Modernity is accelerationism and has no conscience; it only cares about manipulating more materials to serve various civilized belief systems inherent to The Great Game Two Point Zero To One. It runs on its own sick logic. "Exploit everything, kill it all, a bonsai charge to the finish. Do it for God, do it for Country, do it for Power, do it for Freedom, do it for Law, do it for Fame...!"
Modern Empires overthrow any attempt to live differently. You are human capital, a commodity, and you will be devoured.
What violence can bring about peace, and what peace can survive the violence of such a culture?
I fear that there is no answer to that question.
Become the loving, loving be, be no end,
I know the Universe is free.