The world we know is indeed ending. I share this vision with Umair, but the necessity of the worst parts is up for debate, as he keenly describes in the final few paragraphs. Hence why I highlighted this bit, it’s extremely important.
Society and civilization has always been a game where rules get invented and then those game rules get mistaken as law or eternal institutions or even divine mandate, and those rules become stratified. In our minds, we see them as hard barriers, yet each individual has the power to grant these rules their reality by allowing our behaviors to be shaped by them. Upon close examination of any society, there are always the fringe elements that more or less takes these “rules” as mere suggestions. The illusory nature of these “social barriers” become quite apparent from that view.
We, those of us inheriting this dying “world”, don’t have so much of a responsibility, more like a moral decision, to be part of the survival of the human species and the birthing of a new game. We do so by refusing to play the .01%’s game, the one where we keep giving them all of our resources. We do so by creating our own games by investing in ourselves and our community. We invent new rules by re/inventing old/new ways of providing for the needs of our loved ones, communities, and the larger human/Gaia family as much as possible.
We need vision. Everyone of us has at least one vision, one way in which they’d like to change the world. We should promote and invest in those visions that help foster more visionary hopes and dreams.
There will be collapse. There will be violence. It won’t be like Mad Max. It will be more like the slow decline of Rome, with brief and sporadic episodes of extreme violence and hubris.
It’s our choice to react to those “episodes” in the best way we know how. Whatever way each individual chooses, it is their choice. I pray that it is not led by fear or doubt engendered by imaginary “rules”.
Keep it up Umair! We need the doomsayers and prophets. We need far reaching visions like yours! If for no other reason than to help us other “farseers” not feel so alone and crazy for having the same horrible visions as you. Not all of us are asleep and I applaud your efforts!
