Humanity has the freedom to fail this test and go the way of the dinosaur. We’re allowed to take that path if that’s what we collectively choose to do.
We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers to drive our species to extinction via climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, or AI apocalypse if we want to. We are completely free to do that.
I don’t know about you, but I actually find this a comforting thought.
When you take a close look at the existential hurdles that humanity is faced with, it can feel pretty bleak. Global capitalism is destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival. The western empire is getting increasingly comfortable engaging in reckless brinkmanship with nuclear-armed rivals. The AI arms race is shoving through wildly unpredictable technologies at a rapidly accelerating rate with alarmingly little institutional oversight or caution.
But when you notice that all of these existential threats are entirely man-made, you realize that this means humanity has the ability to un-make them as well. We have the freedom to do either. It’s up to us.
I find this a comforting insight because it puts the ball in our court. We can choose to rise up and use the power of our numbers to save ourselves from doom, or we can choose not to. The universe, apparently, is fine with either choice. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be holding the ball.
And who am I to argue with the universe? If the universe wants humanity to have the freedom to either go extinct in the near term or survive deep into the distant future, then I can make space within myself to allow that freedom, too.
Whether or not we make it is not up to me as an individual. I can control my own actions, but I cannot control the actions of my fellow homo sapiens as a whole. And if our species as a collective decides that revolutionary change is not desirable enough or too scary or too difficult to seize, then I can submit to the will of the collective. I can hold enough grace and compassion for my species to honor its sovereign decision.
“We’ll either pass the test or we won’t.” That’s what I tell myself when things are looking dark. I give humanity the freedom to make its decision, and in so doing I free myself. I do what I can to move the needle in whatever way my limited means allow me to, and then beyond that I submit to the will of our better angels.
I do my work, and then I let go. I let go and enjoy my time on this beautiful blue planet here. Because I don’t know how much longer it will last.
They used guns to take the land, then law to keep it. Now they tell you: “Use law to get it back. Go to court. Follow due process.”
But the court sits on stolen land. The judge is the thief’s son. The law they want you to use is the fake law they wrote to steal it.
Why use their law to recover what they took without law? This is why “State Land” is a crime scene.
Things that we are all about to experience in the near future are all because of the US and Israel
Iran is just defending itself; don't let them blame Iran for the disaster they are about to start
They examined our teeth like animals to determine our price.
The Arab slave trade lasted 1,000 years, and persisted until the 1970s.
Why is this erased from our schools?
Look at the chaos in France. That is what happens when just 3 countries (Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger) say no to exploitation.
The rest of Africa needs to wake up and follow suit.
Stop using the CFA franc. Stop giving them quotas. Stop letting Europe and the US drain our resources.
If Africa unites and cuts them off, it is over for the West. They cannot survive without our resources. The dominoes are falling.
Ever since the Sahel boys took back their countries and began reclaiming control of their resources, France has never been the same.
This is why they killed Gaddafi.
African sovereignty comes at a heavy cost for those who survive on Africa’s plunder.
Europe would go bankrupt without an Africa to loot.
A truly sovereign Africa would change the global balance of power forever. 🌍✊🏿
They blew up the twin towers, faked a pandemic, admitted that they eat babies, and everyone is still out here talking about voting our way out of it...
Americans have an arrogant spirit everywhere. After defeating Japan, they established bases there. The Japanese still can't remove them! They remain, oppressing people; media reported sexual assaults and other crimes. Yet they remain. This is arrogance.
Nov. 3, 2009
米兵強盗殺人
America started this war with Iran bombing a school, 6 months in they just bombed a wedding. Double-tap missiles on children.
Nobody was freed, nothing was accomplished.
We are the bad guys. Our leaders are terrorists. Do not be confused when people chant death to America.
You're looking live at El Niño going "full-tilt" to start meteorological fall. Once in a lifetime event.
Three monster hurricanes in E. Pacific w/Hawaii splitting the uprights.
Moisture from Hurricane Marie is going to inundate U.S. desert Southwest with major monsoon!