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Episode #470 - Deep Revolution (Ascent of Humanity #10) |
| ⌚ Mon 6 July 2009 ☻Charles Eisenstein (reading) |
 Download Hour1 Download Hour2More on money, property, and the ideology of innate human depravity, and how this determines the sense of self and the concept of morality, and why previous revolutionary thinkers have not gone far enough. |
 As any environmental scientist knows, it is certain that things will get much much worse for the bulk of humanity before they get any better. Certain forces must play themselves out. The momentous rise in spiritual, humanitarian, and ecological awareness will not save us, not because it is too late (though it is), but because the course of separation has not yet reached its finale. Like an alcoholic whose resources of goodwill, money, pawnable assets, friends, and credibility are almost exhausted, our way of life is on the verge of collapse. We continue to scramble, applying new technological fixes at greater and greater cost to alleviate the problems caused by the last fix. The addict will keep on using until life becomes completely unmanageable. Ecological awareness, localism, green design, herbalism, community currencies, ecology-based economics are all like the drunk's moments of clarity on the way down. They will not so much save us as serve as the seeds for a new way of living and being that we will adopt after the collapse. Indeed they will all come naturally, as a matter of course—if there is anything left at all. 
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