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''Hey thanks for coming, if we have contacted you directly it's because we think you might be able to help. It may be that a collapse of our current system is inevitable, but perhaps here we can nurture the seed of a parallel system. This site is not being created by a particular person, but by BurnZero, the name of the anonymous collective editing it. | ''Hey thanks for coming, if we have contacted you directly it's because we think you might be able to help. It may be that a [[Index.php?title=Ecological crisis|collapse]] of our current system is inevitable, but perhaps here we can nurture the seed of a parallel system. This site is not being created by a particular person, but by BurnZero, the name of the anonymous collective editing it. This site is presented as an editable [[wikipedia:Wiki|Wiki]] (much the same format as [[wikipedia:Main_Page|Wikipedia]]) if you see something wrong and want to edit just sign up for an anonymous encrypted account and start editing.'' | ||
=== Preface === | === Preface === | ||
Infinite growth cannot occur | Infinite growth cannot occur within a [[closed system]]. It is baked into our core that all of our consumer aspirations can be met, but unfortunately, if we would like to have children that wont have to fight for water in the future, this is not the case. We need to look afresh, into new ways of thinking moving away from the egocentric to the ecocentric. | ||
But we are still all individuals and we all collectively got to this point, perhaps we should start by looking at ourselves to see what has gone wrong before we take any new bold action. Human thought processes proceed as if it is reporting objectively, but in fact, it is often coloring and distorting perception in unexpected ways. What is required in order to correct the distortions introduced by thought, is a form of proprioception, or self-awareness. Neural receptors throughout the body inform us directly of our physical position and movement, but there is no corresponding awareness of the activity of thought. Such an awareness would represent psychological proprioception and would enable the possibility of perceiving and correcting the unintended consequences of the thinking process. | |||
These distortions are not there by error, they have evolved over time for the body to save energy. For instance, why expend all of the energy looking at people's individual nuances to figure out if you can trust them or not. Instead evolution made a rule of thumb and racism evolved. This is not to say racism is correct, it is more to say skin colour one of the simplest differentiators of us and them, evolution has has encoded, culturally / genetically to avoid others, i.e. mother said don't talk to strangers. In general this worked within a monoculture society, however today in our multicultural society this heuristic proves to be a hangover from a distant past. | These distortions are not there by error, they have evolved over time for the body to save energy. For instance, why expend all of the energy looking at people's individual nuances to figure out if you can trust them or not. Instead evolution made a rule of thumb and racism evolved. This is not to say racism is correct, it is more to say skin colour one of the simplest differentiators of us and them, evolution has has encoded, culturally / genetically to avoid others, i.e. mother said don't talk to strangers. In general this worked within a monoculture society, however today in our multicultural society this heuristic proves to be a hangover from a distant past. | ||