Trans-Human.
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greygirlbeast wrote this, on her Twitter: "Forget your fantasies of fleeing to a terraformed Mars in your transhumanist body, once Earth is 2 befouled to inhabit. This is all we have."
And I have to agree.
Now, let me be clear, i don't think that this is all that we Can have; I think that this all that we currently do have, and we need to handle the operations of it, as such, before we even think about trying to move on, from here.
Maybe that sentiment is unpopular among a lot of people, but come on: If we can't even fucking handle not destroying ecosystems, here, then how the fuck can we even Hope to get a sustainable, artificial ecosystem on another planet? Rather than learning from nature and being willing to take larger risks for less profit, in the name of a long-term renewable, integrated, sustainable future, we deforest, drill, mine, and, when we fuck up, we utterly destroy.
Yes, there are a number of us who believe in a better way, a more sustainable way, but we don't have the concentrated money, media-machine hours, human work force, or, honestly, vision, to get it done. We are a moderately vocal minority in a vast sea of noisily complacent mediocrity, and all of our efforts are against a sturcture that has built itself to "profit" (read: "Have More Than You"), via catering to that complacency. The only way that things change is when things get so terrible that we have to do something, and then we change just enough so that people stop bitching and complaining, and get back to watching "16 and Pregnant" or "The Next Top Idol Housewives of Jersey Shore Are Smarter Than X-Factor." This is the problem. This is the way of things, now.
You are motivated. You are determined. You will make the world a better place. How? What will you do? What can you do? How will you show people that there is more to what they want and need than 30-second television adspace and Shrek Drinking Glasses and Justin Bieber, more than the immediate gratification of the ever-next? This is not a rhetorical question, i'm really asking.
Because we are fucking dying, here. We are killing ourselves, bodymind, ecosystem, conceptual-sphere, and all. We are allowing ourselves to make a world were we don't get a say in how we continue to exist, and this after we already created a pace at which we no longer seem to pay heed to "natural" evolutionary pressures. So what's left, when we fuck our air and water and soil? What's left when GM foodstuffs are all that's left to eat, and they make our genitals fall off? What's left when we can't even talk about how we shouldn't be imperialist, expansionist assholes, to one another, when we still hate each other because of how we look, and where we live, and what we individually believe? How can we possibly hope to survive past this century, when every century before this one seems to have been tailor-made to help us kill ourselves?
Maybe it's just the Gulf Distaster and all the wars talking. Maybe we're all actually starchildren poised to take the next big leap in consciousness evolution, and everything will be fine, so we should just keep calm and carry on. Maybe. But I have to say, if i were some consciousness-building evolutionary principle of multiversal awareness, and I saw the shit we were pulling, right now? I'd place a bet on the Dolphins and let us burn.
Prove me wrong. Get together and do something to fix this world. Something big, not just stop-gap triage bullshit. Pool your ideas and your resources into a teachers collective, a lobbying group, a political party, a secret organisation bent on taking over the world and making it a more liveable place, for all of us. Something.
Someone out there has to have a few billion dollars to bankroll us, don't they? We can still save this thing.
Maybe then we can talk about Mars.
greygirlbeast wrote this, on her Twitter: "Forget your fantasies of fleeing to a terraformed Mars in your transhumanist body, once Earth is 2 befouled to inhabit. This is all we have."And I have to agree.
Now, let me be clear, i don't think that this is all that we Can have; I think that this all that we currently do have, and we need to handle the operations of it, as such, before we even think about trying to move on, from here.
Maybe that sentiment is unpopular among a lot of people, but come on: If we can't even fucking handle not destroying ecosystems, here, then how the fuck can we even Hope to get a sustainable, artificial ecosystem on another planet? Rather than learning from nature and being willing to take larger risks for less profit, in the name of a long-term renewable, integrated, sustainable future, we deforest, drill, mine, and, when we fuck up, we utterly destroy.
Yes, there are a number of us who believe in a better way, a more sustainable way, but we don't have the concentrated money, media-machine hours, human work force, or, honestly, vision, to get it done. We are a moderately vocal minority in a vast sea of noisily complacent mediocrity, and all of our efforts are against a sturcture that has built itself to "profit" (read: "Have More Than You"), via catering to that complacency. The only way that things change is when things get so terrible that we have to do something, and then we change just enough so that people stop bitching and complaining, and get back to watching "16 and Pregnant" or "The Next Top Idol Housewives of Jersey Shore Are Smarter Than X-Factor." This is the problem. This is the way of things, now.
You are motivated. You are determined. You will make the world a better place. How? What will you do? What can you do? How will you show people that there is more to what they want and need than 30-second television adspace and Shrek Drinking Glasses and Justin Bieber, more than the immediate gratification of the ever-next? This is not a rhetorical question, i'm really asking.
Because we are fucking dying, here. We are killing ourselves, bodymind, ecosystem, conceptual-sphere, and all. We are allowing ourselves to make a world were we don't get a say in how we continue to exist, and this after we already created a pace at which we no longer seem to pay heed to "natural" evolutionary pressures. So what's left, when we fuck our air and water and soil? What's left when GM foodstuffs are all that's left to eat, and they make our genitals fall off? What's left when we can't even talk about how we shouldn't be imperialist, expansionist assholes, to one another, when we still hate each other because of how we look, and where we live, and what we individually believe? How can we possibly hope to survive past this century, when every century before this one seems to have been tailor-made to help us kill ourselves?
Maybe it's just the Gulf Distaster and all the wars talking. Maybe we're all actually starchildren poised to take the next big leap in consciousness evolution, and everything will be fine, so we should just keep calm and carry on. Maybe. But I have to say, if i were some consciousness-building evolutionary principle of multiversal awareness, and I saw the shit we were pulling, right now? I'd place a bet on the Dolphins and let us burn.
Prove me wrong. Get together and do something to fix this world. Something big, not just stop-gap triage bullshit. Pool your ideas and your resources into a teachers collective, a lobbying group, a political party, a secret organisation bent on taking over the world and making it a more liveable place, for all of us. Something.
Someone out there has to have a few billion dollars to bankroll us, don't they? We can still save this thing.
Maybe then we can talk about Mars.
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Date: 2010-06-10 07:29 pm (UTC)All anyone can do is their best. It's up to every single individual to make the decision to save this planet for the future.
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Date: 2010-06-14 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-01 09:48 pm (UTC)I don't think I need to do more than bring up the different things I do when the conversation turns that way. We are social animals and even if most people want to do the right thing it can feel difficult when those around you do stuff and perhaps even think you should be lower on the status scale for not doing them. Learning that others we meet make these decisions for sustainable living makes for a big difference in perception. Suddenly you can frame it into being in the forefront of a righteous movement rather than being a lone weirdo.
Anyone who, in this day and age, need me to explain why we have to change the way we live won't be convinced by any lecture I could give.
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Date: 2010-06-26 06:40 am (UTC)This sounds terribly hippie-ish, but make each and every one of them care for something. Prisons have had great success in having inmates raise and help train seeing eye dogs because it helps them learn that responsibility isn't something to be avoided or passed off, isn't just a stick with no carrot.
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Date: 2010-06-26 06:53 pm (UTC)Convincing adults that children need a sense of responsibility so that they can become Adults with a sense of responsibility, while teaching all of them that it's all connected... That's a hard sell.