As I mentioned yesterday, the planet isn’t going anywhere. We are. Pack your stuff, folks. We’re going away for awhile. No matter what we do to the Earth in the next few millenia other than destroying it completely will be reversed slowly after we’re gone. As long as we have not exterminated all other biological life on Earth, the planet will heal itself. When most people show concern for the planet, they’re thinking of how a dead planet might individually inconvenience them. It’s obvious that civilization is unsustainable, so it will crash. Unless we find a way to go to other planets and extract resources on a massive scale, there will be no way for us to sustain our current way of life. Maybe that’s why terrorists hate America. Our way of life is unsustainable.
I think that the fact we can’t take care of our own race says a lot about how we treat the planet. Since we attack each other and go to war with each other, we hate ourselves. We are all the same race. You don’t see dogs attacking each other because they’re different breeds. So maybe this can give insight into how we like to destroy things. We like to take without giving back. But the planet will live on no matter what we do to it. We could pollute all the lakes and streams and certain strains of bacteria and other organisms that feed on that sort of waste will thrive. Is that a bad thing? I don’t really know. Morality is an invented term by humans. I think the universe is just there and so it is also indifferent to what we do to this planet. And if God made us in his image, he must be indiffernt, too. He probably gets his rocks off thinking about the Rapture. (Of course, I’m talking about the Christian God.)
Is this world so bad that people are actually looking forward to Armageddon? Or the Apocalypse? Like it’s one big release for everyone? “Thank God that’s over.” I believe Freud used the term “shadow self” to describe this aspect of self. The part that wants death, destruction, and other equally evil activities. We all have a dark side. We all have a light side, too. I think the people who run the world have a nihilist view of the world and the effect they’re having on it. They contract their empathy and this becomes addictive. And this contractiveness makes it easier for these people to rule the world and do whatever they want with it. Most of these people were raised rich and had the resources to put these ideas into motion. The very ideas that are destroying the Earth, but the planet is fine.
The planet will never let us destroy it completely because we need it to survive. It will take us out because we will be unable to eat or sustain ourselves without vegetation or clean water. It’s just a fact. What we’re concerned in preserving is a planet with human life on it. It’s a totally selfish way of thinking. We want a planet with humans and automobiles and computers that will be sustainable. It’s not impossible, but it’s very hard to maintain. If one sect of the people in this future conquers everyone else and forces them to adopt the civilization way of life again, it will just start the whole cycle over again.
People today can’t imagine going back to living in a time where there was no running water or televisions. They’re addicted to society. They’re addicted to the notion of having tons and tons of things. It’s a drug that is so addictive, you’re looked at like you’re crazy if you aren’t a part of it. It is a massive task to cure the entire world of an addiction that is looked at as normal. It’s going to take a crash for anything new to happen. But as one civilization crashes, another rises. If we had a global crash, maybe we could adopt a way of living that will let us stay on the planet we call our home. Otherwise, we will be weeded out. I won’t be around when it happens. But I do know it will happen if we don’t change our lives.
But I guess it’s not that big a deal really. Just because humans are no longer here, it doesn’t mean the world won’t matter anymore. There will be another uprising of new animals or maybe some of the same animals and they will live here. They will live in the abandoned skyscrapers and shopping malls. They will thrive in the waste of our society. So maybe it’s not always about us. Sure, it would be nice to have the human race living in harmony with nature for the rest of time, but it’s not possible right now. I hope some day we find a way to do it. And if we don’t, it’s not a big deal. We’ll just quietly go extinct. Everything is temporary. Even the universe will disappear someday. The planet will die in the future. It’s just a matter of when. So it’s great to save our home while we’re still here and it’s still here, but we have to know that we’ll soon be gone and so will the planet. Against the backdrop of eternity, “soon” could mean any number of things. But for now, the planet is fine.
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