Anyone ready to start the transition? I am hearing all kinds of business as usual solutions, even from the Mahdi Obama, but not much discussion on re-thinking this whole centralized industrial era game that is folding up.
Can we honestly look at the current manifestation of civilization, and say with confidence that it is working? Or is it time to tear it apart, and begin a new paradigm? Does centralized government, power, food, mfg and distribution make sense any more? Or do we need to re-localize and create a new distributed model, an InterTown model of civil endeavour? Towns of Towns make a country just as networks of networks make an Internet, a very effective way to distribute processing and facilitate communication while eliminating single points of failure within a system. (I love peanut butter. single points of failure for peanut butter is really serious shyte to me.)
When does the mainstream wake up and say The Emperor(s) have no clothes, and have been butt ass naked and stealing my stuff for quite some time? Will this Greatest Depression be that time? It starts to appear so as I look at Europe and Russia and the rumblings beginning there. Or, as a friend so lucidly points out, do we keep the game going with debt and stimulus, or do we just kick the can down the road to our grandchildren, and wring our hands about our lack of economic growth?
I find it hopeful that David Meadows was honored by the Japanese last week - Limits To Growth now appears to make a lot of sense :) I find it disturbing that we are in our 3rd consecutive year of drought here, with a big decline in Sierra snowpack. (oh, just like those pesky computer climate models predicted).
It's a finite planet , with finite resources. All energy ultimately comes from the sun. This game can not sustain, so overshoot and collapse are the usual outcome of our type of behavior, whether it is Easter island, the Mayans, or a petri dish of yeast. Are we ready for those consequences?
For me, these are all rhetorical questions of course, I am still convinced we are watching the accelerating train wreck of human civilization from economic greed and planetary abuse. The klaxons are sounding on starship Earth, and ooooops.....there is no escape pod. Too bad for us, this ain't hollywood...but have your people call my people and we'll do lunch.
Peace Love and hope that the Navajo (or Amish) will adopt me,
Thom
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