Isn't This Really Our Ultimate Choice?

As the world gets more an more twisted, it is starting to hurt all over. We always knew it would when we hit the boundary. Now in our culture wars, we have a big choice to make. And there will be no going back. The patriarchy is already going forward with their plan because they don't think sustainability can organize without compulsion. And they believe in their compulsory promises of 110% success rates. Yes, even after the list of failures making 110% impossible -- well at least for everyone.

So if your choice is in favor of faith in eco-balanced biotic environment, what choices must you make to ensure the likely success of that reality?

Similarly, if you think our best chance of survival is a self-consuming cybertransport sailing across the dimension of air as a ancestors did sea, looking for yet another promised land, let's see once and for all the detailed plan of how this is going to work and for how long. Let us judge for ourselves whether such a future is better than the historical divine or magical garden of earthly delights.

If enough of us believe in either option, let us evaluate and democratically debate the required social contract to ensure its success. Just giving one side all the money and means of production while the rest of the biotic world becomes disposable inputs is not credible in insuring success. You can't call an engineered solution to be divine inspiration or the invisible hand of a benevolent dictator. Similarly, the idea that we can let biology run lassez-faire unbalanced by empathetic compassion is humanistically devoid.

The world is not ending, a reality is ending. And we just don't know which one. My personal opinion is that we are juggling too many perceptions of reality that something has to give. This is a new day. This is the end of the culture wars. We will be on the same page.

This is a precipice - a tipping point - a commitment.

The feminine Mother Earth and God's creation versus the self-consuming engineered creation of what at best could be considered a life raft and at worst a pirate ship. I think given that choice, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Lincoln, Gandhi, and a host of angels would make the same choice. The would also lament that after thousands of years of sacrifice by others, we couldn't keep from getting to this point. It is as if all of history was a struggle to avoid the big plastic inevitable, while living as comfortably as possible. I wonder what they did wrong. Why didn't they sell out? Why did they think they could trust us? We showed them, haven't we?

I know there is one thing most of them would agree on, that we need to avoid violence in making this choice. And most would probably also agree that the choice should be a democratic process, if not a striving for traditional unanimity.

And the patriarchs keep marching forward, because they are scared too.