Throwing a blind eye to the way we've treated our earth and each other really isn't possible at this point though, but no one ever said evolution wasn't a dirty, cut-throat process.......
reply from Northfork Hippy
Let me be the first to say it, if your statement (that no one ever said it) is true: Evolution is not a dirty, cut-throat process. Period.
Within the empires of Western Civilization* the simplification of systems necessary to maintain some semblance of a sustainable Earth, where fossil fuels are not the basis for basically every aspect of our survival (food, shelter, entertainment), with the deleterious side effects of burning through millions of years worth of accumulated sunlight in a century or two (acidified oceans, change in climate, dumbing down and behavioural control of entire populations through propaganda and the distribution of drugs both overtly in the form of alcohol, anti-depressants and narcotics, or covertly in the form of food additives and genetically modified organisms) given that; change or "evolution" is inevitable.
Every civilization that has out-stripped its resource base has fallen, as will ours. Whether the american empire can sustain itself through the continued use of facist, corporatacratic and wasteful energy utilization is not in question. The question seems to be how long such draconian practices will be tolerated by the people actually building the pyramids for these Pharaohs. At some point (the sooner the better for the sake of 1000's of surviving species on this Planet) this extravagant way of life will end. We don't have a jungle or desert or forest or horticultural regime (in the case of our "Middle Ages") to sink back into as earlier peasants of failed civilizations did.
**the great mystery of why these experiments in congregating people into large populations totally dependent on a surrounding, limited resource base always fail is a source of endless amusement to me. What happened to the Inca's, et al? Seriously? Some effin' mystery! :D**
Back to the original assertion that Evolution is neither cut-throat nor dirty: only those of U$ with the most to lose fear the inevitable crash of the financial markets, the shift in food production as the result of change in climate, and the Transition to a steady state energy economy. In Belize, as I am fond of saying, because our dear friend Joe Bageant lived there (google him if you're not familiar with his work), in Belize they will hardly notice the difference. "Undeveloped" or "3rd World" countries in general may experience no more than a temporary disconnection from satellite communications, if their mesh networks even desire or require them. In Belize the nets will be mended, the beer drank and enough fish for a few more days caught. As it has been forever, and forever could be.
Don't confuse evolution, with it's distortion of Darwins' ideas of survival of the fittest and all that taken out of context rubbish with the failing of another empire. Evolution continues apace, both physical and evolution of Consciousness, regardless of which band of talking monkeys think they are calling any or all of the shots.
It's not dirty, Friends. Nor is it cut-throat. It's Natural, and there aint a goddam thing you can do to stop its ultimate unravelling. Hey, Shift Happens. Kick back and enjoy!
*Civilization in this context is used rather loosely because civilization done rightly and mindfully and artfully can be a really good thing, not the failed attempts at sustaining unsustainable populations that are often given the name, and that always have and always will eventually fall. (and all of us peasants will, as always, survive.)
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