The Crisis

Figure 1. Endogenous and Exogenous pacification.

8 billion people living in a culture of infinite growth on a finite planet is causing some problems. As the machine mindlessly forges on, the first crises are precipitating into everyone's everyday lives. Plastics in our oceans, wildfires and floods on our land and forever chemicals in our waterways.

As the machine doesn't account for externalities, ecological devastation for the benefit of a few is driving despair and inequality for the rest of us. As our politics are captured, where can we turn for solutions? In our desperation we escape by whatever means possible but as the inescapable heat rises we turn to our doctors, psychiatrists and therapists as a last resort. But as Huxley prophesied our last line cannot fix a broken system but can only serve to pacificy our pain.

We need to transcend the ancient heuristics which are being taken advantage of, form better collectives, repattern our minds and step bravely forward into a new world. We have the solutions to fix this, we just don't yet have the systems to implement them. Lets build them.