steve hawkins, on Gaia's "Gattopardi..."
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All on Thu Jul 20 08:53:19 2023
steve hawkins, July 4, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Economists think that people exist to service The Economy. They believe the only
point of life is to make The Economy grow. Their Economy is just a bonfire of resources that they need more and more people to stoke with more and more fuel from further and further away, just to try to make their bonfire the biggest. From space, the fires and lights are starting to make a planet shine like a star:
a dying star.
Oeconomics and oecology, started out, as their names imply, as ‘housekeeping’.
As with almost any good thing, greed and the human instinct to multiply even if it
means driving out or cannibalising the neighbours, always wins out over science
and parsimony. While the consciencious are labouring to lay in stock for the future,
the physically stronger fight their way to the ‘top’ and then want a bigger bonfire.
The workers are too busy working to stop them.
Only science and good leadership can save us, but everywhere, as George Washington
warned, ‘the baleful spirit of party’, has prevented true democracies from ever
forming, and turned government from a basic housekeeping exercise, into just another
tribal competition to be ‘king of the hill’. The media has turned this into just
another sport to report the latest results on, and the public’s natural tribal
instinct has been turned to just stopping the other side from doing anything at all.
So the tragedy of the only species to have evolved the ability to be aware of the
balances that keep the world suitable for its survival, is that the instincts of the
majority are still as self centred and rapacious as they have been since they were
purely wild animals.
The leopards are still in charge and they cannot change their spots. They will soon
be burned and forgotten by creatures suited to the hothouse world we made them.
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