tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post5524331148599196078..comments2024-03-16T10:58:10.065-04:00Comments on Consciousness Unbound: Our Failed EnlightenmentMichael Grossohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044309674467126746noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post-66530112013025175782019-11-28T20:03:49.793-05:002019-11-28T20:03:49.793-05:00The fact is this: the Earth could NEVER take how t...The fact is this: the Earth could NEVER take how this materialistic society wants to live on it. I have studied and followed environmental science since the 60s. Indigenous cultures around the world had it figured out. Despite the contempt from westerners for them, and numerous lies to the contrary, indigenous people everywhere were very sophisticated philosophically, and especially biologically. They had profound understanding of their environments, the plant life, the animals, the waters, the complex and multi-layered cycles of all these things, and the inter-dependence of the whole on all its parts, and each part on the whole.<br /><br />Western Europeans had literally trashed their own environment by the middle ages. They had felled most of their great forests, exterminated their large predators, and had already fouled their waters with human and animal waste by the year 1100, and they had the communicable diseases and plagues to show for it, too. <br /><br />Nothing about this entire way of life was ever sustainable. It cannot be salvaged, nor made right, either. There are no fixes for the unreality of western destruction. If there were, we really, really needed to apply them at least 60 years ago. The unfolding climate holocaust will be the only thing to put an end to it, I believe.<br /><br />Fortunately, I don't believe this world is all there is to reality. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post-3041779121140483082019-11-28T19:30:22.240-05:002019-11-28T19:30:22.240-05:00I will NEVER care one whit what any Euro-colonial,...I will NEVER care one whit what any Euro-colonial, not Franklin nor Jefferson, said about the supposed "founding" of America. This country was "founded upon" the genocide of millions of Native Americans, and the theft of their land. That genocide wasn't just a misunderstanding, the result of conflicting cultures. It was murder from the beginning, and it will end by murdering the entire world in the near future. <br /><br />Europeans haven't lived within their moral or material limits since Charlemagne in the 8th century. Western Europeans have overrun the entire planet, with a the notable exception of China, but they held Hong Kong for 150 years, as the British did also in India. As we all know, Gandhi is famous for getting rid of them. <br /><br />Hundreds of millions of indigenous people in the Western hemisphere, in Africa, in all the Polynesian islands, in Australia (only 6% of the aboriginal people survived in Australia), in New Zealand, and everywhere Western Europeans have invaded were slaughtered in genocides that lasted CENTURIES. Theft of land and resources continues to this day. Indigenous children were still being stolen and either adopted out to non-Native families or sent to boarding schools where they were frequently abused, as late as 1978!<br /><br /><br />It is more than our so-called enlightenment that failed. This culture isn't reality based. It's based in humanistic hubris. The entire society would fall apart in an instant if not for its deep and abiding violence as a way of being and relating to the rest of all creation.<br /><br />Other societies have evil people. This is an evil, predatory society. And Euro-colonial people cannot see it. The brainwashing must become hardwired, or something, because Euro-colonial people are impenetrable when it comes to understanding the horrific destructiveness of their cultures. The entitlement is too deep and pervasive, and it will be the end of everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com