Reply #37: Human history [View All]

[PATRICK]

How many realize we are living at one of the most crucial turning point sin human history? This excellent post about the death of the past, the blindness of the present also points to the death of the future and the same blindness.

People FEEL the loss or the vacancy. People know intuitively enough to work against the anxiety, unease and dread- in wrong evasive ways. This is an important topic because our leaders, our wealthy capitalists and most of the social planners are sadly in the same state. Or worse for fashioning naive fantasies of continuity and dumb planning that make things infinitely worse.

We are making a world in which we- in our present state- are becoming obsolete- like stone age tribes with a devastated culture succumbing to blight, drugs and the backwash of the new "civilization". Technologically out of it. Powerless. Incapable of fitting in or adapting except as a subclass to something greater that hardly exists. People find refuge in these circumstances, never the genuine culture. People mourn resentfully, defiantly, in fear and growing hopelessness. Partly though, for life otherwise goes on very nicely.

My experience barely touches upon your own, just enough to get what you are talking about and know what has been lost. I know what it is like to leave the country for a few years and come back and see a startling, overwhelming mass mood, a trap bereft of richness and inner strength, of fears denied and underground hope turned to gray. Canada and France had their own disadvantages, but it was the war and the political miasma that had sapped America of its spirit. The upcoming revolts against this spirit were petty, spiteful, resentful and dumb- more symptoms of the "malaise" that Carter barely mumbled about. Those reactionaries who derided this first glimmer of self-awareness plunged the nation deeper into the sickness while the real crises of the age lumbered on like some invisible Frankenstein.

Our ability to provide bread and circuses high tech style were gleaned off the beast and mistaken for Utopia. Utopia means "nowhere" for a reason. You could pretend anything, but reality bit.

Conservatives especially can dismiss these very sentiments that warn of the devastation of things they profess to protect and rely on. Mankind is actually plunging itself(call it evolution, in any event WE did it to ourselves)into the Dark Night of the Soul, bereft of everything. In the age to come, should we survive, humanity must find and fight for itself, what we mean and value and choose, what we must submit to regarding the spirit and reality. What is lost must not be forgotten. What is new should not be an accident of war, upheaval and accidents of survival. This century involves choice, a choice being STOLEN from humanity out of purest fear and ignorance.

We will have to choose what the future will be, or we can hope to muddle through to the sifting out of the good, genetic perfecting, spiritual uplifting and an entirely new species civilization. I think we can see that muddling through accidental evolution is very likely NOT going to work at a stage where choice and intelligence MUST be employed. We can die or we can choose to live and give this creation the chance it strives for with every atom and every good thought.

I too would make peace with this stupid Armageddon of pathos, this criminal judgment the worst of mankind despotizes over the good natured apathy of the dazed and bereft. But not without a total fight.
We will not meet violence with violence, fear with fear, hate with hate, because this is one thing we can agree on with the bizarro fundies. There is no place in the future for this behavior. We cannot survive the world we have been making. No depth for the human experience, no brain for the demands of thought, no spiritual strength to master our destiny.

The Gospels have never been lived enough, the American Revolution was never finished, America has never existed nor democracy. The status quo has never been sufficient even as a myth. Standing still or taking ease has only accelerated disaster. Evil is becoming more visible and insupportable and laughable even as it flows into the empty spaces, but people fear the emptiness, and the human animal flees stress as it would any other predator.

So will the disinherited join the ranks of the "too dumb to live" the "too selfish to survive"? Will mercy or luck favor our future?

I am not content that important wisdom is the blind spot for the self-chosen moronic drivers of our society. Nor that the science of the future is similarly blown off except for petty pleasures and advantages to their drunken course. Past? Future? If this is the best we can do, these "great ones" will plunge us to a disaster so moronic that the cosmic joke would be utter humiliation. No grand drama. No angels coming to seal our grandiose self-important drama. Just salvage operations at best and the conqueror worm.