- The stark raving evidence of complexly collapsing global
systems is not difficult to come by. Indeed, waking consciousness is hard
put not to stumble over the wretched truth wherever it goes: our earth,
air and water are polluted to the point of toxicosis. Increasingly ferocious
weather events indicative of climate change frequently displace awareness
of the underlying sickness of the elements involved. Yet weather, and
the distressed condition of the basic elements that create weather, are
inextricably one. However often climate change and the pollution of the
world are discussed as if somehow separate, these permutations of a single
planetary system are not divisible. Other than in a shortsighted human
mind, there is no place on earth where the reality of severe pollution
and observable climate changes can be teased apart into discrete, reliably
identifiable, and provably non-interacting categories.
The deeply disturbed condition of nature has profound implications for
our future, and therefore needs to be addressed openly, thoroughly, and
immediately. Yet comprehensive analysis and a sense of reasonable urgency
are almost entirely missing from the mass media,s marketplace of over-the-counter
mind control. Mainstream corporate news-midgets do not consider exploring
the facts of our situation in depth to be suitable material for the carefully
controlled pomp and twitter of public interest pseudo-discussions. More
honest brokers of reality, speaking from outside the ongoing services
in the Church of the Bottom Line, are trying to convey the crucial missing
sense of concern. They know that no one in military, government or corporate
sectors has any intention of telling unsettling truth to that all-important
devotee: the Constant Consumer. But the problems inherent in effectively
communicating vital messages are themselves difficult to overcome, even
for the most dedicated. How is it possible to transmit even the most important
message, in such a way that the frantic cacophony of daily life does not
cause people utterly to fail to be moved by it?
The blaring babble and hyperactive racing pace of television deliberately
drown the discriminative senses of most minds willingly and witlessly
tethered to it. Unfortunate slaves to that brutalizing conditioning so
accurately referred to as "Programming, have accepted the mass murder
of meaningful mental activity, in the name of "relaxing enjoyment.
"Entertainment and "infotainment (that is, outright brainwave
entrainment) have successfully seduced and stunned the guards once standing
alert before the doors of perception. Never-ending parades of staccato
visual and audio processionals trumpet and trample across the beaten-down
ground of captured and conquered mass consciousness. By day and by night
the addictive and punishing pummeling continues, until the average person
is thrashed into a permanent state of undiagnosed emotional and mental
senselessness. Ceaseless sensory overload eventually causes a condition
of apparent functionality amounting to rudimentary Safe Mode. This is
the emergency retreat into desensitized numbness taken by desperately
overloaded psyches, which sooner or later becomes a permanent coping strategy.
In far too many of us, the natural and appropriate emotional and mental
responses to unfolding events have long ago been undermined, overwhelmed,
overthrown, and replaced by wooden replicas.
Even the ancient human survival mechanism has been badly damaged by the
modern reprogramming of so many human beings into an army of obedient
automatons: usefully mindless and helpfully senseless Consumer Clones.
And those most afflicted are, as a matter of course, the most unaware
that any such deadening dysfunction has crept in. The primary human ability
to correctly assess the meaning and significance of very different kinds
of events has too often been eroded to a dull throbbing nub: the vague
sense of unease. The power to correctly evaluate information has been overwhelmed
by the incessant broadcasting of particular classes of rhythmic sounds
and images, specifically calculated to undermine and eventually anaesthetize
the faculty of reason. Under the pounding torrents of deliberately polluted
streams of popular entrainment, the ability to discern what is meaningful
and what is not is being lost. Far too many people have been trounced
into passive submission by a frantic flux of the jumbled images and sounds
of catastrophes and crimes, half-truths and trivia, trash and triumphalism.
So much so that by now most incoming data, whether true, false, vital
or meaningless, is received by overloaded perceptions almost as if it all
had the same level of importance. The result of all this, in gruesome combination
with a fiendishly corporatized educational system and corporately harnessed
working life, is a kind of widespread "socially acceptable psychotic
break. This is the paralyzing psychological and social dislocation resulting
from large numbers of people devoid of the ability and even the desire
to think for themselves.
There are many of us who conclude, based on the evidence, that we have
precipitously entered into the most hazardous time in human history. We
trust that communications about what we observe will somehow thread their
way through the impenetrable thickets of noise, into the minds and hearts
of those who still retain a capacity for evaluating information, feeling
the import, and acting on it. While no one knows the details of the future,
a brew of elements has been coalescing which is bound to result in extreme
difficulties for the human race. Above all else, for the last fifty years
or so, civilization has been enthusiastically promoting the unification
of ethical and spiritual degeneration with extraordinary advances in
material technology. This is inarguably a fatal symbiosis; what remains
to be seen is the extent and duration of the damaging effects. We have
been subjected to greatly debilitating psychological manipulation in the
past five decades. At the same time our capacity for harming all forms
of life and causing vast and critical alterations in nature have been accelerating.
The signs and symptoms of incipient social and planetary breakdown are
everywhere. Yet even now, the majority of the most privileged human beings
who have ever lived are still sleepwalking through existence in the typical
consumer,s Lifestyle Trance. We have been so appallingly conditioned
to behave as if we were able to live apart and aside from our context in
the natural world, that even as our vital living context mutates under
our feet, we can hardly take it in. The problem then, in communicating
the immense problems we face, is not so much that of avoiding causing
useless fear and over-reaction in the average person. Rather, it lies in
the inability of the raw facts, with all their implications, to make much
of an impression on the public at all.
Here then is the basic message, yet again, for what it is worth. Because
even those of us who think we already know, and believe we understand,
cannot possibly encompass the full meaning and ramifications of this fact:
The intricate web of life on Earth is unraveling.
What this will eventually come to mean in practical terms to individuals
and families and nations is incalculable. Here in the western world, terrorism
notwithstanding, our unconscious underlying presumption is that we are
relatively secure in our wealth, infrastructure, government, social structures
and technological know-how. Do we not subconsciously feel this to be so,
even as we observe the telltale patterns of increasingly brittle fragility
everywhere? But this impressive camouflage of a superstructure amounts
to a thin smear of protective routines spread over the foundations of
a vast living world that is coming apart at the seams. The delicate balance
of nature as a whole is undergoing a process of increasing disturbance,
and falling away from the relative background stability that our global
civilization takes for granted. We are seeing alterations on a grand scale
directly due to human pollution, at the same time we are undergoing the
unsettling influence of what we are supposing must be a natural cycle
of change. Just how natural and unrelated to human activity the systemic
changes underway really are remains to be seen. Yet rather than being
investigated thoroughly and without preconceptions, this most dangerous
situation has been reduced, for the most part, to the status of fodder
for interminable human argument by various vested interests. Unimaginably
complex natural systems are tilting out of harmony, toward climate, weather,
and other types of extremes few people are willing to assess with sufficient
sobriety and lack of prejudice. Pollution of these same life-support systems
has reached levels that threaten the health, to one degree or another,
of a significant percentage of the life forms on this planet. The natural
environment that has given rise to and supported the lives we expect is
diseased, disrupted and degenerating. This reality is currently coinciding
with unknown degrees and unidentified causes of climate change, and no
one really knows what all this might add up to, or where it all might
end.
The rate, for instance, at which the atmosphere is degrading is a very
well kept secret that is right out in the open, well protected by near-wholesale
indifference. The facts are available for all to see, yet the public does
not desire, or even retain much capacity at this point, to comprehend
what this means. The oceans are sick, but the typical self-centered human
being is already tired of hearing about it. The earth is groaning with
its load of toxic materials, but the public has heard all this before.
We are, as a species, remaining curiously unmoved by the factual truth
of our vulnerability in relation to our own festering garbage. What most
people do not wish to fathom, and what the ruling powers will never helpfully
prepare them for, is that underneath the veneer of normality, the world
mankind has always known and depended on is unraveling. And there are
synergistic effects of entirely unknown timing, complexity, and magnitude
well underway.
There are sinister reasons why, even as each day brings its further proof
of widespread systemic breakdown, the general population remains disinterested
and entirely unable to respond rationally to such enormous potential
catastrophe-in-the-making. First of all, if people understood the significance
of what was happening all around them, the business of business-as-usual
would be dramatically impacted. This is the basic motive behind the relative
silence of the government/corporate/military/media world about our underlying
predicament. Worldly authorities, the Elders of The Church of the Bottom
Line, have declared an anathema on all that would deflect the populace
from their worshipful devotions to shopping. Our economy these days is
unusually dependent on the production and consumption of sophisticated
luxuries and fripperies, corporate concoctions, military expenditures,
and on non-renewable energy gluttony. We have no foundation whatsoever
in the sane development of ecologically viable basic necessities for all.
In the area of life,s fundamental requirements there is a very dark cloud
on the horizon. Available water is drying up, and even much of what is
peddled as safe to drink is distinctly unwholesome. Energy requirements
are rising, right along with the number of unsafe power plants and the
mountains of brooding nuclear waste. Corporate agriculture has severed
relations with nature and is betting the economic farm on criminally greedy
and ruinous attempts to simulate edible food. The unspeakable hells of
factory farming continue unabated, with the average devourer of such
nightmarish suffering and disease blithely unconcerned. Modern medicine
has mutated into a callous drug dealer with a lifetime pass into schoolrooms,
and a runner in every doctor,s office. The basic necessities of food, drink,
and medicine have been transformed for the most part into exceedingly ugly
inversions and perversions of the originals. In many or even most cases,
the adulterated chemical stews people are addicted to or dependent on
for basic survival are directly destructive to health and life, and of
value only to their stockowners and shareholders.
Most of those who run this planet as a feudal fiefdom, benefiting mainly
themselves, probably do see the dark shadow of things to come. In any
case, they know something of the potential for downward spiraling, and
have some idea of what the future might have in store. They also realize
that there is probably nothing they are going to be able to do about it.
Some of those in positions of influence and power have reacted by retreating
behind the usual human mechanism of denial. They hope we will be able
to adapt at the last minute to whatever natural and unnatural catastrophes
are on the way. They hope that disasters arise sequentially, and only
regionally and locally, as they have in the past, and that somehow or other,
this level can be "managed. This is archetypical human shortsightedness,
and a refusal to understand that the patterns of the past no longer suffice
to forecast the future. Others in power have a clearer and far more cold-blooded
grasp of the most probable future. The most heartless and soulless simply
intend to squeeze the last penny out of the human race, every step of
the way down. They are attempting, so far successfully, to own the world,s
water, to own the basic seed stocks, to own the means of food production,
to own the land, to own all energy production and infrastructure, and
to own all the other necessities of sheer existence. As nature continues
to die off, they expect to benefit hugely from their relatively unchallenged
ownership of what amounts to human existence. They obviously plan to increasingly
insert their worthless factory substitutes for all forms of nature into
the human chain- at the usual exorbitant profit. But what the shortsighted,
corporate-owned so-called "leaders of government, industry and the
military think is not our major concern. We already know the gist of their
attitude to humanity: fundamentally, as a flock to fleece. The point is
that no "authority has any intention of adequately preparing us either
psychologically or physically for future problems. Reports of various
kinds of extreme conditions will continue to increase; yet no overall
picture will ever be presented of the ominous proportions of the unraveling.
It is up to the individual to make the effort to examine the scattered
bits of data, put the pieces of the puzzle together, and to try to understand
the meaning of the partially completed picture.
For example, we almost never consider what could possibly go too far wrong
with what we are breathing. Even as the cities continue to deliver deadly
fumes on a daily basis, we try to ignore it. We are thoroughly conditioned
to believe that this is the price of "progress. We therefore more
or less take what we breathe for granted. But ground-level ozone and other
types of air pollution are unquestionably causing wide spread illness
and premature death. This has found "acceptable to the majority of
human beings, so far, since we have been conditioned to believe this is
merely the cost of doing business on earth. The proof of this strange acceptance
is that people have never yet been up in arms about this reality in any
large numbers. On the whole we have preferred to pretend that the effects
of air toxicity must be somehow bearable, and that our children will somehow
manage to thrive in it, even when statistics demonstrate exactly the opposite
conclusion.
Already the atmosphere is so heavily freighted with adulterants, and the
ozone layer so frayed, that people, animals and plants are being very
seriously affected. The UV levels across the globe are consistently so
high right now that in many parts of the world people should not be staying
outside for more than fifteen minutes. But what would happen to agriculture,
construction, and all the rest of the outdoor work on earth, if everyone
were fully aware of this danger? Are there really any effective remedies
to this growing danger, aside from staying indoors? Even if it was possible
to issue sunscreen to everyone in the world, such chemical lotions are
yet more questionable pharmaceutical items, with unknown long-term side
effects. And what of that other infamous "sunscreen, Edward Teller,s
idiotic plan for a highly toxic chemical aerosol "protection from
the ravages of ozone depletion? We might reasonably suppose that this
lunatic concept forms a large part of that incessant noxious drool from
the skies called chemtrails. But whatever chemtrails are supposed to be
for, we know for certain that this program is already having extremely
bad results. We are clearly being accumulatively poisoned by these illegal
aerosol dispersal operations, seen stealthily deployed and creepily oozing
down all over this continent and elsewhere. The health complications already
arising from this so-called sunscreen, if that is what it is, are already
disastrous. And these terrible effects would certainly go a long way toward
explaining the reasons for the impenetrable wall of silence, secrecy,
relentless disinformation, and preposterous and insulting lies surrounding
the blatant reality of chemtrails.
Furthermore, the electromagnetic and chemical weaponization of the atmosphere
is also well underway. This too involves drastically meddling with the
air, and further saturating it with deadly chemicals and wildly pumped-up
levels of electromagnetic energies. All this mad frankenscience at work
has, as usual, entirely unknown long-range effects and side effects. Furthermore,
the ionization of the atmosphere, potentially dangerous in itself, says
nothing about the unknown results of implementing the mysterious new types
of scalar weapons technology in such a drastically altered atmosphere.
Without the slightest public discussion, our entire atmospheric envelope
is being ruthlessly transformed into, among other things, a high-tech chemical
and electromagnetic weapons, communications, and control platform. Meanwhile,
even the results of increased normal air traffic alone have seriously
damaged the chemical balance of the air we breathe. This is the dirty
little fact about air travel, which no one from the congregation of Lifestyle
Uber Alles has the slightest desire to face. And of course no one knows
what sorts of unintended consequences will arise through inevitable photochemical
mutations in an already sick atmosphere. Pouring large amounts of yet
more toxic chemicals into a system already mutating because of pollution
with toxic chemicals is so far beneath reason as to render a sane person
speechless. Yet this is exactly what is being done. It is therefore best
to realize that madmen are in charge here at present, and to take our
future into our own hands as much as possible. We must study, research,
think for ourselves, and prepare as best we can for significantly changing
conditions. Because the only alternative is to actually believe that as
natural (and political) systems become increasingly chaotic, the government
will, if called upon, take good care of us, in a place and in a way that
we will find quite bearable. And if we should be capable of believing
this, then we might want to take the time to think through the actual
logical scenario of possible social upheaval, and how the government and
military would be likely to respond to it.
Each day brings new data about the shockingly deteriorating and distressed
conditions in the oceans of the world. These bits and pieces of critical
information arrive one or two at a time, and make little impression on
the majority of busy hard-working people. Apparently it is going to take
outright calamity before most people finally realize what nature is, what
has happened to it, and how far out of balance it is. Modern "civilized
people dispensed with awareness of the natural world some time ago, other
than as a kind of backdrop to our own ego-stories. Modern so-called lifestyles
insist on and depend on our willingness to ignore all the unpleasant details
about where things come from and how they are made, and what their hidden
costs are. Our civilization is built for the most part on the sands of
instant gratification and the purchase of shiny surface surroundings.
Nevertheless, we remain forever woven into an incomprehensibly complex
and dynamically balancing unified field of livingness. We have slowly
come to believe the fatal illusion of ourselves as exempt from the natural
laws of our own living context, but that does not make it true. Decades
of deliberate conditioning have intensified and solidified such ignoring,
bringing the human species to the point of near-perfect insanity in terms
of its overall direction and habitual heedless behavior. But it is hardly
surprising that modern humanity has fallen into various degrees of sleep,
folly, and semi-functional dementia. We have been, painstakingly and cleverly,
over the course of several generations, psychologically engineered away
from all relation to reality. The reasons for this are obvious: truth
does not lend itself easily to manipulation for excessive profit.
That which we have always taken for granted, for generations upon generations,
can no longer be taken for granted. Mere money cannot create a safe atmospheric
envelope as we continue to load it with corrosive substances when it is
already saturated with toxins and badly tattered. Money alone will not
create sufficient pure air, pure water, and pure food for all, when these
are already approaching the beginning of the end of their availability.
Money cannot cause climate changes to halt in their tracks. No amount
of money will be able to force genetically modified food to become nourishing
to the human system. Money won,t prevent these monstrosities from escaping
and interacting with normal food plants, with easily foreseen disastrous
results in the long run. Money will not convince increasingly violent
weather to calm down. We have pretended to ourselves for a very long time
that we are separate from and superior to the intricacies of the web of
life itself. We still generally believe that our wealth and technology
will always rise to the occasion to save us from our mistakes, no matter
what. But we are about to discover the obvious flaws in our civilization,s
ravenously self-serving and willfully ignorant substitutes for understanding.
All who thoughtfully address the prospect of serious alterations to the
way we live will have their own individual set of circumstances to consider.
Each will have a unique set of ideas about what is most likely and least
likely to happen in the years ahead, and what, if anything, they care
to do about it. There is no one "answer to the problems we face, caught
up as we are in far too Interesting Times for easy answers. In terms of
both material and spiritual preparation and security, all of us have our
own innate inclinations, established relations, and future possibilities.
We might remember that our excursions here in these temporary forms are
relatively brief in any case. There never was anything more to lose than
were obliged to leave behind us here anyway, sooner or later. Certainly
worry and fear are not reliable guides to anything besides worry and fear.
It is always possible to attain such a consistent awareness of the spiritual
realities in back of bodily existence that much of what might otherwise
frighten and worry us yields to higher and deeper truth. Peace of mind
and heart need not be dependent on circumstances, as the history of the
human spirit rising to the occasion proves. Trying times are well known
for offering great spiritual opportunity, however much we might well have
understandably mixed reactions to this idea. Most of us are accustomed
merely to reading and hearing about those who have had to live up to and
through extreme circumstances. Now it looks as if it may well be our turn
to manifest physical resourcefulness, emotional equanimity, intelligent
activity, and spiritual truth in the face of unforeseen difficulties.
If it turns out that this is indeed our future common destiny, we may-
and indeed we must- seek strength in the fact that such a situation has
always been, is now, and forever will be, a great and worthy test of the
intrinsic mettle of human souls.
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