tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post7812608188340866666..comments2024-03-05T04:27:46.444+11:00Comments on THE PSYCHOLOGIST : JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post-13259742723179310452014-12-27T15:01:34.411+11:002014-12-27T15:01:34.411+11:00Please find some pithy summary descriptions of the...Please find some pithy summary descriptions of the nature of humanly created world in the 21st century from a profoundly conservative philosopher (who was not in any sense right-wing) and who was acutely aware of the state of the world and where it was inevitably heading if the current trends/momentum continued unabated.<br /><br />At present, most of the energy of humankind is going into industrial-age warrior conflicts rather than addressing urgent global realities.<br /><br />The modern everyman of consumer society is a highly propagandized individual, participating in illusions and, effectively, self-destructing.<br /><br />The modern everyman is being created by the power system of the world, because it is in the interests of that power system for there to be consumer egos who are completely self-involved, and stupefied.<br /><br />At present, a culture of total war, a culture of death, is ruling, while the people are engrossed in self-destructive consumerism.<br /><br />The power of industry and money has actually become senior to the power of governments, and is now controlling the entire world.<br /><br />It is in the interests of the institutionalized (corporate) forces that are in power to keep the voices that want a world of peace and unity separate, weal, and vulnerable.<br /><br />The globally-extended super-state is what the big warrior-states are moving toward. They are looking for there to a winner that can control the world in a totalitarian manner.<br /><br />This is the "ground zero" moment of human history, but not merely referring to the empty pit in New York. The whole world is at ground zero now. The entire basis for positive human civilization has been totally destroyed.<br /><br />Consumerism is the society of systems-in-competition. The consumers in one tribe or other are looking to be big consumers exploiting the others. The rulers and/or winners get to consume. The defeated, or the subordinates, get to live in poverty, or with very little.<br /><br />The current situation in the world is that everyone wants to live the Western style "good life" and be super-consumers. That is simply not possible. The Earth-world cannot sustain it.<br /><br />The exploitation of resources and means by corporations that are essentially independent of any form of accountability is part of what is wrong.<br /><br />Industrialized productivity throws waste products into the air and the entire environment, contributing to global warming and disastrous effects of all kinds.<br /><br />At present, relative to food production, there is the grossest exploitation of non-humans by the methods of industrialization. It is the same with land, which is being destroyed by the mono-culture of industrialized farming.<br /><br />Fossil fuels are already causing global warming and extreme weather, as well as negative effects on global economics and politics.<br /><br />The "farming" of animals as food is also a major contributor to global warming - from the transmission of methane gas into the atmosphere as a natural by-product of the "farmed" animals themselves, and otherwise through the use of fossil fuels in the industrialized production of animals as food. <br /><br />As soon as there is a class of wealth established in a culture, or a nation-state, or a group of nation-states functioning together, the motives of greed, exclusivism, and self-protection begin to appear.<br /><br />The situation has arisen that wealthy people, wealthy nation-states, and wealthy corporations everywhere are acquiring property and goods all over the world. This power of almost unbridalled wealth is upsetting the balance (such as it was) of how things were, and is having a dramatic negative effect on the global system.<br /><br />There is a global collapse happening.<br /><br />The Earth-world and all of the global human domain has already collapsed far enough. If the pattern of the whole collapses much further, the human life-sphere will NOT be retrievable<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com