This is the most powerful and direct "piece" I have ever read. You have my attention now more than ever. I feel I crossed over some invisible barrier... triggered more than anything by your sentence - "It allows me to keep cleansing my conscience." You touch the border of truth as close as can be done within form. Yes, the planet (the ecological emergency)... what can be more obvious? Yet, what is even more in our face is the cowardly running from actually facing it.
In my last comment I stated that the only hope I have for us is a planet wide consciousness shift. Without action, the odds of this are probably zero. So, "suck it up time?" Your piece points out we probably have no choice. Sadly, when enough actually get it, it really may be too late (perhaps not the first time for this planet's version of humanity).
"Instead, we devised fake ideologies around technology, entrepreneurship, meshed with a form of spirituality that is basically a narcissistic game, extending our culture’s insipid egotism." Finally, someone writes in a precise and pithy way the self deception we've fallen habitually into. And the masses who haven't pursued this worship those who do and this completes the picture we face.
This is the most powerful and direct "piece" I have ever read. You have my attention now more than ever. I feel I crossed over some invisible barrier... triggered more than anything by your sentence - "It allows me to keep cleansing my conscience." You touch the border of truth as close as can be done within form. Yes, the planet (the ecological emergency)... what can be more obvious? Yet, what is even more in our face is the cowardly running from actually facing it.
In my last comment I stated that the only hope I have for us is a planet wide consciousness shift. Without action, the odds of this are probably zero. So, "suck it up time?" Your piece points out we probably have no choice. Sadly, when enough actually get it, it really may be too late (perhaps not the first time for this planet's version of humanity).
"Instead, we devised fake ideologies around technology, entrepreneurship, meshed with a form of spirituality that is basically a narcissistic game, extending our culture’s insipid egotism." Finally, someone writes in a precise and pithy way the self deception we've fallen habitually into. And the masses who haven't pursued this worship those who do and this completes the picture we face.
Uuuggghhh.