Trigger warnings, hard doom and gloom.

Fighting got you here, and I know you can’t hear this, but fighting won’t get you out of it. Yet, you persist.

There’s always some happy peacenik saying that, you say, yet all of our history is written by people that never stopped fighting, it worked for them – this from people who think the dinosaurs “failed,” or something by only existing for half a billion years, creatures who have been around for point zero, zero, something percent of that amount of time saying this.

While the fighting and the competition have destroyed the environment and it all collapses as it has many times before for perhaps various reasons, it would appear that the New World Order myth is playing out, that someone has decided that the coming disaster means only some few will be able to continue, and so death and mass death are suddenly legal, saith the Power, and we will not fight the plague, rather we shall mandate it, and we shall not slow the wars nor the genocides because these and many, many more must perish to get to a sustainable level of humanity and none of this is theoretical because climate collapse is here and there is going to be no food next winter, and every person who dies this year will not be starving and migrating and rioting next year.

So by their logic, they must keep doing exactly what they have been doing to bring about the disaster, fossil fuels and war . . . which tells me that the “sustainable number,” will shrink and shrink until it is gone altogether. They simply cannot stop, they simply can imagine no other direction in which to go. It will be bloody Penn and Teller Get Killed, Last Man Standing sort of bullshit.

Whereas if you could imagine anything else, these billions of people could be put to better use, what we need is terracing of the land, anywhere and everywhere, to catch the rare floods for use and to recharge the aquifers, and much of this and much farming ought to be done as manually as possible, perhaps in small scale, again, even this, if it’s a machine, fossil fuel project, will shrink that number. Those two things and not much else ought to be a suffering and shrinking humanity’s only projects for the next . . . going forward, let’s say. Well, included but perhaps worthy of mention, as well as shutting off the nuclear plants in a controlled fashion, if it’s not already too late for that, if we are not already beneath that level of operation.

I can’t say for sure that the choice is quite so stark, or that there is any hope no matter what we do, but I do think this is how we should think about it – keep fighting until there’s nothing left, or give that stupid shit up and start to limit the coming damage by working for each other instead?

Jeff

Nov. 12^th., 2023