We're all going through it together!

Many thoughts converging...natural disaster in Vermont where people are coming together beautifully to help each other, and the human tendency to rise when things are really bad, contrasted with people going low to create social disaster for political and monetary gain (the Republican Party, evangelical Christian churches, the oligarchy, and all their allies); my own emotional cycles of up and down, which I am pretty open about, and noticing how so many people I am in communication with are navigating feelings of hopelessness and ennui.  It's all related.  Humanity is collectively experiencing fear of annihilation due to what we have done to the biosphere.  We are now experiencing significant disruption due to climate change related weather events which create disasters for humans (and animals and plants). Not only are we experiencing this, we know we did it to ourselves.  Even those who deny climate change, deep down, they know.  Most of the public deniers are simply liars making political and monetary points off of polluting industry or the ideological political machine. Fear is driving a lot of the hate and division we see in the world.  People are splintering off into groups where they feel safe because of likemindedness. Ideological positions then become more extreme because people live in echo chambers which amplify their fears and beliefs. It's all a big distraction, though, from the real issue facing us, the increasingly imminent collapse of the biosphere.

Bottom line, if we want to stop the hate, stop the violence, we should all, ALL of us, focus our attention on how we can stop the polluting. That means the wars, which are huge polluters, must stop.  Polluting industry must stop, which means we in the industrialized parts of the world will have to go without some of what we are accustomed to.  It means all governments must immediately focus on sustainability and climate mitigation.  This stops the hate because it gives people a common purpose and something to do to fill their time.  Stopping wars reduces violence in the obvious way but also, countries at war have more violent societies at home than countries that are not at war.  Violence begets violence.

Humanity can do this, if we choose to.  It may be too late, in terms of the climate, but at least we could go out on a more positive note, and maybe, just maybe, if we really get on it, humanity will survive into another, wiser, kinder, iteration.

Why do we humans elevate the least evolved among us to positions of the most power?

Why do we humans elevate the least evolved among us to positions of the most power?  The list of "powerful" people, politicians and CEOs, who are psychopaths, whose cravings for power dominate their lives, is extensive.  If you list the politicians and CEOs in power now, how many of them are psychopaths? Most if not all. That means they do not care about anyone or anything but themselves and that which pleases them.  And we see the result. The world is on fire. The social contract has been shredded in the US and is in the process of being shredded in other countries. More violence, more hate, more religious insanity.  Aren't we tired of this?  I know I am.  Aren't you?

Independence Day??

Ironic that on Independence day weekend the "Supreme" Court has chosen to take the nation one step closer to theocracy, the very thing this country was founded NOT to be. By ruling that businesses can refuse to serve someone based on religious preferences is an appalling and unethical "flipping of the bird" at the founders of this country, and at the people alive now, the majority of whom do not want the US to be ruled by so-called christian tenets.  

The civil war is on, the evangelical, white supremacist and Catholic extremists are fighting tooth and nail to establish the US as a "Christian Nation" to be ruled by white heterosexual men.