utopiathecollapse | April 2015 – CIVILIZATION – The
enormous cognitive dissonance between our growing awareness of our
civilization’s accelerating collapse, and the ‘news’ in the media and
the subjects of most public discourse, continues to baffle me. Though I
suspect it shouldn’t. We are all slow learners, preoccupied with the
needs of the moment, with a preference for reassurance over truth. I
often find myself, these days, at social and other events, at a loss for
words, not saying anything, as a result. It’s as if I speak an utterly
different language from the people I meet in my day-to-day life, so
what’s the point of saying anything? Perhaps this is Gaia’s way of
teaching me patience. I continue to vacillate back and forth all the way
from the humanist worldview (F. on the ‘map’ above’) to the near-term
extinctionist worldview (L.), depending on what I’m doing and who I’m
doing it with, or what I’m reading (Charles Eisenstein seems to best
represent worldview F. and Guy McPherson best articulates worldview L.,
and I greatly admire them both). I’m happy with company anywhere along
that continuum — they both speak my newly-acquired language, though with
very different dialects. It’s sad to me that most people find collapse
too terrifying to contemplate. I find it liberating.
