Laudable attempt at future casting but many inaccuracies: 47% of Americans 18-50 are choosing NOT to reproduce for a variety of reasons; population density stress is driving higher levels of the chronic stress hormone "cortisol", which inhibits the master reproductive hormone "GNRH" and thus sperm production and female reproduction; we are clan/band evolved animals and the nuclear family is the last phase of societal collapse; the 70+ yrs. of animal crowding researches are nowhere mentioned (Calhoun, Southwick, Christian, etc.); the inevitable collapse of the American constitutional Republic under the Fascist takeover now in full progress is not mentioned; climate collapse is not mentioned and it is well underway--we may well see an unlivable 6 degC increase over preindustrial by 2047; full-on civilizational collapse is already baked-in to our massive overpopulation/overconsumption (3,000 times too numerous); God does not like what He/She/they are seeing. Perhaps most importantly, our educational systems are floundering and the general populations are dumbing down at accelerating rates, as predatory Capitalism consumes itself. Again, thanks for your effort.
Excellent, as always, but I still see a giant absence in your meta-analysis, an absence that Hagens, the now mentally-deficient Kuntsler and Greer share. - the C-word.
The systems you allude to are not governed by a “We.” They are not governable by an indistinct “Us.” These systems are now wholly owned and operated by Corporations. Trucks, employment, housing, money, environmental destruction. - all completely under the rule of mindless, amoral psychopathic ultra social command entities populated by power calculus cyborgs like Musk, Dimon, Andersen, ad infinitum. And no thought-guru is anything more than a speck of dust compared to this global human extinction delivery system.
Sorry to be repetitive in my comments. - you of course write really well about this largest of subjects. You should write what you want to write. But Substack does have this commenting feature, which offers at least the idea of actual reaction from interested readers.
thanks for your comment! I suppose I omitted them because so many others identify corporations as the enemy, and I felt that other issues deserve attention. Also, I think that blaming corporations can lead us into mental traps: thinking that corporations' employees are free to steer them toward a more rational path (false); that if we modify corporations to be "better-behaved", then we can continue to experience civilization-supported lifestyles (false); or that if we go as far as to eliminate corporations, then we can continue to experience civilization-supported lifestyles (false). Corporations _exacerbate_ civilization's metabolism problem, but its origin lies deeper than them.
Great comment - though I must be missing the general conversation - where are these anti-corporatists hiding?
The false thinking you identify about corporations is still massive and pervasive - year after year of college graduates thinking they can "make the world a better place" through corporate work; delusional six-point plans for reform of corporate business practices; anarcho-primitivist rewilding fantasies.
However, corporations are the perfect stealth mega-enemy to drive humanity to its self-caused extinction, so I tend to want to see that last-stage ultrasocial process named.
Your work is so much better than the boys you cite - you deserve a significant readership.
I definitely observe what you do - more people believing in corporations' power to do good and not suggesting that we eliminate them. (Do you happen to be familiar with https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ ?)
thanks for the compliment! My later posts might be a bit anarcho-primitivist - I hope not unrealistically so!
Oh, yes, I’m familiar with the B Corporation buying of green indulgences. I love the “We won’t stop until we make all businesses good” bullshit tagline they highlight at their site.
That’s just religious dogma to me, completely lunatic, but then I think US higher ed, and of course transnational global corporations, are religions - systems of faith adherence than run counter to evidence and reality. Of course, like real religion religion, they are not going away - higher ed, transnational capital, mega churches, degrowth, even anarcho-prim, fascism, all destined to plague humanity as bastions of unreal thought until the forces of extinction gain their last forms of control.
But of course that makes me an apostate, and humans are ultrasocial creatures who hate apostasy. And it’s usually not long before self-styled apostates reveal their own streak of crazy.
Comments section in general seem to attract wingnuts and wingnutism. I hope you enjoy the fray here in your own comments section, while freely writing whatever you wish.
thanks! of course, I'm just an amateur describing the path that we appear to be on, and maybe there's some mitigating factor that I've overlooked ... but yep, it's hard. and I wonder how it must feel for someone who doesn't already anticipate it all, so each disappointing headline is a fresh blow
Laudable attempt at future casting but many inaccuracies: 47% of Americans 18-50 are choosing NOT to reproduce for a variety of reasons; population density stress is driving higher levels of the chronic stress hormone "cortisol", which inhibits the master reproductive hormone "GNRH" and thus sperm production and female reproduction; we are clan/band evolved animals and the nuclear family is the last phase of societal collapse; the 70+ yrs. of animal crowding researches are nowhere mentioned (Calhoun, Southwick, Christian, etc.); the inevitable collapse of the American constitutional Republic under the Fascist takeover now in full progress is not mentioned; climate collapse is not mentioned and it is well underway--we may well see an unlivable 6 degC increase over preindustrial by 2047; full-on civilizational collapse is already baked-in to our massive overpopulation/overconsumption (3,000 times too numerous); God does not like what He/She/they are seeing. Perhaps most importantly, our educational systems are floundering and the general populations are dumbing down at accelerating rates, as predatory Capitalism consumes itself. Again, thanks for your effort.
Excellent, as always, but I still see a giant absence in your meta-analysis, an absence that Hagens, the now mentally-deficient Kuntsler and Greer share. - the C-word.
The systems you allude to are not governed by a “We.” They are not governable by an indistinct “Us.” These systems are now wholly owned and operated by Corporations. Trucks, employment, housing, money, environmental destruction. - all completely under the rule of mindless, amoral psychopathic ultra social command entities populated by power calculus cyborgs like Musk, Dimon, Andersen, ad infinitum. And no thought-guru is anything more than a speck of dust compared to this global human extinction delivery system.
Sorry to be repetitive in my comments. - you of course write really well about this largest of subjects. You should write what you want to write. But Substack does have this commenting feature, which offers at least the idea of actual reaction from interested readers.
thanks for your comment! I suppose I omitted them because so many others identify corporations as the enemy, and I felt that other issues deserve attention. Also, I think that blaming corporations can lead us into mental traps: thinking that corporations' employees are free to steer them toward a more rational path (false); that if we modify corporations to be "better-behaved", then we can continue to experience civilization-supported lifestyles (false); or that if we go as far as to eliminate corporations, then we can continue to experience civilization-supported lifestyles (false). Corporations _exacerbate_ civilization's metabolism problem, but its origin lies deeper than them.
Great comment - though I must be missing the general conversation - where are these anti-corporatists hiding?
The false thinking you identify about corporations is still massive and pervasive - year after year of college graduates thinking they can "make the world a better place" through corporate work; delusional six-point plans for reform of corporate business practices; anarcho-primitivist rewilding fantasies.
However, corporations are the perfect stealth mega-enemy to drive humanity to its self-caused extinction, so I tend to want to see that last-stage ultrasocial process named.
Your work is so much better than the boys you cite - you deserve a significant readership.
I definitely observe what you do - more people believing in corporations' power to do good and not suggesting that we eliminate them. (Do you happen to be familiar with https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ ?)
thanks for the compliment! My later posts might be a bit anarcho-primitivist - I hope not unrealistically so!
Oh, yes, I’m familiar with the B Corporation buying of green indulgences. I love the “We won’t stop until we make all businesses good” bullshit tagline they highlight at their site.
That’s just religious dogma to me, completely lunatic, but then I think US higher ed, and of course transnational global corporations, are religions - systems of faith adherence than run counter to evidence and reality. Of course, like real religion religion, they are not going away - higher ed, transnational capital, mega churches, degrowth, even anarcho-prim, fascism, all destined to plague humanity as bastions of unreal thought until the forces of extinction gain their last forms of control.
But of course that makes me an apostate, and humans are ultrasocial creatures who hate apostasy. And it’s usually not long before self-styled apostates reveal their own streak of crazy.
Comments section in general seem to attract wingnuts and wingnutism. I hope you enjoy the fray here in your own comments section, while freely writing whatever you wish.
Hi, just found it amusing that I tapped "like".
Well written, thankyou.
Solid article per usual. It’s hard to see this happen in slow motion
thanks! of course, I'm just an amateur describing the path that we appear to be on, and maybe there's some mitigating factor that I've overlooked ... but yep, it's hard. and I wonder how it must feel for someone who doesn't already anticipate it all, so each disappointing headline is a fresh blow