…or let’s see the ‘Writing on the Wall’

and Mold our Self into the Collective Common !

All the silly attempts to stop the linear motion or reverse the outcome, just reveal a grave disconnection from the dynamic & synergy of real life. The childish 5 or 2 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock are just as preposterous as emission trading or carbon taxation. Such ill-fated ideas are fueled by some delusional economic science and an anachronistic belief system. Real Life goes on, the cycle continues and it is merely debatable how far beyond the ‘point-of-no-return’ we are right now.

A few of us, and these might be the only ones I’m addressing here, have realized that it is 00:12 rather than 11:58 on the ‘Doomsday Clock’.

Now, the time is more than ‘ripe’ to analyze why & where our mentality of the time,  ‘der Zeitgeist‘ of today, got stuck in this terror & agony that precedes our fall into the abyss;  and yet, the ‘terror management‘ continues to do its sinister job to keep the masses docile and in check.

Most of us have overlooked or are refusing to see that this so much feared ‘Great Demise’ is already happening, the downfall of our civilization is well underway. They are still dwelling in the promises of hope and keep chasing ‘carrots’ of happiness & success on the treadmills of our economic machinery. We keep ourselves busy playing survival games which give us no time to think-about or to pay attention to the ‘Writings on the Wall’.

Every maturation process has to face the abyss, has to overcome the fear & terror of Death, before transcending into a new realm of Life.

This Initiation, Rebirth, Resurrection or whatever else we call it, is the turning point where growth turns into ripening and context & purpose begin to matter more than techniques and tangible properties. All this is a very organic & dynamic process and applies to the individual as well as to the collective development of our species.

The ‘wild’ reactions of our planet, our habitat, are just a natural response to centuries of unconscionable abuse. ‘Mother’ Nature has been very patient with us and taught us well, but then, when we lost respect for Her and all the Rest of Creation, the balance tipped ! Then, when we took possession of Her and started mistreating Her as we did with countless other species, with our peasants, slaves and all the deprived & have-nots on this planet, all the ‘warning signs’ went up. But, in spite of all warnings, we continued to misbehave like a bunch of uncouth, juvenile hooligans,                                                          and nothing could stop us. In hindsight, it wasn’t technology, chemicals nor weapons of mass destruction that sealed our downfall, but rather our collective numb- & dumbness, our sick mentality that got stuck in schoolboyish brawls over the ‘loot’. It was this arrested development of our species, our devolution into HomoSociopathis, that finally triggered the immune response of our global ecosystem.

Obviously, we have lost our mental ability to find & share our common ground, misplaced our social-emotional ‘tools’ to build consensus, to interact, cooperate & co-create. All hopeful thinking that humanity, as a whole, will wake-up, clean-up its act, lay down its weapons and come to a consensus, is absolutely delusional. More disappointment & frustration will make everything just more traumatic.  

Since most, if not all our attempts are still based on a dysfunctional paradigm with all its eco-political fallacies firmly in place, all efforts will be in vain. The eco-dynamic will continue to take its course and, in this context, will require synergetic solutions which will have to be detached from all monocultural philosophies and completely freed from the ‘economic’ restraints of any current political order.

Now, if you look closer, you can sense a panic-stricken community of scientists, environmentalists and political reformers, all scratching their heads in disbelief. The rest of the population either drowns in self-delusional complacency or in simple naivety. Scared & frustrated as usual, many seem to flock back into their  religious or political familiarities, looking for comfort, shelter & guidance in strong authority & leadership; – and yes, that’s precisely what they will get, again.

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”  ^[44]

 

Without an individual healing process of the mind, all activism is just a re-activism, repeating the old mantras of hope, using the same old principals just with newer technologies in green camouflage.

I appeal to the few of us who understand that this is ‘as good as it gets’ and who recognizes that there is no turning back.

Mistakes were made and the best we can do for ourselves and maybe future, vestigial humanoids, is to prepare an analysis of our intellectual misconception and a comprehensive etiology of the philosophical & psychosomatic causes that derailed the maturation of our species.

Together with such thorough analysis of our social-economic misunderstandings, we need a linguistic redefinition of our role & place in Life in general, and our responsibilities in the commonwealth of this planet in particular.

The Maturation Process Molds the Self into the Collective Common. The Synergy & Dynamic of our Social-Emotional Intelligence can then Develop the Sapiens, the Essence of our Species, to Transcend us into the Next …

 

All that is, lives. Nothing is annihilable. Even Moldering is transition to new Life.

…and don’t forget,

it’s 12 minutes after, and it is your Sapiens we need right now !

 

Of course with Social-Emotional Maturation comes an increase in Eco-psychological Sensitivity and a Rehabilitation of certain intrinsic Spirituality.