Rat Race vs Survival Instinct
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Fight For Survival
The "drill-baby-drill" is back through the big door and ensures everybody knows it. He is drilling furiously at the foundation of democracy so we can look forward to a deadly carousel ride and a frantic rat race to survive.
In the ensuing chaos, if the situation is not managed, the battle for survival will become ferocious as money increasingly flows out of small rats' pockets into the pockets of big rats.
This situation will make it more challenging for small rats to survive and they will consume everything left, thus destroying nature. Then, there will be nothing left for anybody.
In my article Despair in the Darkness of Africa, I describe Gorongosa, one of the world-renowned game reserves boasting herds of thousands of African Buffalo. I didn't see one for the whole day when I was there twenty years ago. They were all killed and eaten by the fighters of the twenty-year-long civil war. The war equals destruction.
I just came across this article on Gorongosa.
A similar situation is developing today as lighter-than-air money is floating up into the pockets of oligarchs and the platform below where their cronies still get decent food, while more and more people are sinking deeper into extreme poverty.
The question is how came that, contradictory to human makeup, people accept penury even though the world can provide for all of us. People dying from hunger accept their fate, while others live in odious opulence. Mahatma Gandhi said: 'The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.'
We can get some insight into the trajectory which we are following from this paraphrased saying from Martin Niemöller, a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany:
First, they starved the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then, they starved the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they starved the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then my time came, and no one was left to speak for me.
Those controlling the food supply chain are making billions by constantly increasing the price of food. They justify this by citing various reasons, such as supply chain problems, cost-push inflation, demand-pull inflation, built-in inflation, ego inflation and lots of other crap the mainstream gaslighting tools feed us.
When droughts, floods, heatwaves and other calamities caused by global warming coincide, creating a worldwide food shortage, famine is coming for most. Those events are increasing in frequency, and it is a mathematical certainty that they will coincide.
What happened to our survival instinct? It is supposed to be the most powerful of all instincts and provoke us into action, ensuring our survival. Have we been blinded and cannot perceive the trajectory curve, another mathematical certainty?
What do we do?
We scrounge around for trickledown crumbs of the economy and call each other names because the Others are guilty of our misery.
In most countries, proper elections produce around fifty per cent results. We are divided right down the middle. When scraps trickledown stops, we will kill each other for scraps of the scraps. Being roughly equal in numbers and resources, we should be able to do a good job of wiping ourselves out.
We have to become wiser in our outlook on life.
Let's compare this situation with rats. What do rats do in times of starvation? They turn to cannibalism and eat everything in sight. What they need to survive, such as food, clean water and shelter, belongs to somebody else. They will fight savagely to take it from them. No rat is safe. If there are more rats than available food, brutality will continue until all food is gone, and then they turn onto each other.
There is no winner!
We can stop deterioration by reasoning. Let's find a common stance on the improvement of our environment. It is evident that it needs help to provide sustainability for humans and other species.
Mind Works in Mysterious Ways
There is a saying that God works in mysterious ways. Considering that we can never reach that level of understanding, we could use the logic God did give us. We might have pushed it to the edge of our consciousness, but it is there, and we should bring it back and discover why our survival instinct is failing us.
Different people will probably come to different deductions. It is not practical timewise to examine each of them and try to make myriad conclusions, so let's follow the thinking of one of the Giants of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, who said: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," and see where it gets us.
First, we must take our minds out of the tight box in which they have been squeezed, and we will realise that with today's technology and fair distribution of resources, nobody needs to kill themselves working and still live in indecency of poverty.
I am not pro-communist, as I hate the SOBs that chased me out of my homeland. See my article Despair in the Darkness of Africa. They are worse than capitalists as they preach equality, and the elite steals everything except crumbs, and instead of having to resort to gaslighting, they do it by decrees. The saying that: "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man and communism is opposite," is very accurate.
Also, I am not advocating income equality as we all don't have the same abilities, ambitions and needs. Still, I am advocating a life of dignity and sufficiency of basic needs, including a roof over our heads, food, health care and freedom. Aristotle said: "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Contemplating the Inconceivable: A World Sacrificed for Profit
Even when news distributors avoid ecological reality, they sporadically publish something here and there, such as the Los Angeles fire, when a disaster occurs. However, there are still voices raising alarm through alternative media that we should pay attention to.
Millions of people are anxious about the state of our planet, but they feel confused and powerless in the face of the enormous challenge. Simultaneously, they are burdened by an immediate fight for survival in an economy where cards are stacked against them. When it happens, the state of our planet might seem to be years away, but paying bills to avoid loss of dignity is a month at the most.
Suppose it isn't too preposterous to contemplate that people would willingly destroy the world for a paper they invent, print or digitise on a whim, taking its worth away. Most of us don't understand the complexity of financial instruments, so we have no idea what is going on. In this, we must follow Leonardo’s: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.“
The way things are now isn't good for the environment or humanity.
It is beyond comprehension that we let these double-dealing swindlers lead us to calamity. We must take the long-term view and not be blinded by the next quarter.
Kilimanjaro Reflections: Sublime Guidance at Astral-Altitude
I felt Kilimanjaro's tingling in the periphery of my mind as it usually does when I get myself into bewilderment and battling to find the solution to a problem. Maybe it is feeling guilty for getting me stuck in a situation and committed to solving the problem that many say is unsolvable.
I have to dispel the near-universally held notion that global warming cannot be solved, while keeping my doubts at bay. I had to convince millions that it could be done and help them activate their survival instinct. I must unwrap the veil of deception wrapped around reality and make them perceive actual reality through clear thought.
My other problem was Henry Ford, who said: "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right."
Again, I found myself standing at the edge of an extinct volcano, an ancient sentinel who, over millennia, gathered the wisdom of ages.
It had seen empires rise and fall.
But why now, instead of the sun-bathed golden plains, I faced a void - infinite darkness and absolute silence.
My mind was no longer a distinct entity but merged into this infinity, and with this realisation came revelation - I am not in the void but an intrinsic part of it.
"Why am I here?" I shouted. My voice was no more than a whisper dispersed through the vastness of the universe. The universe didn't answer with words but initiated a thought forming in the recesses of my consciousness:
"You are lost. Your path is obscured. You must return to the foundation.
"This is it, Nirvana! The essence. From the essence, a new direction will flow."
"But there is nothing here - no ground to tread, no pillar of thought to lean upon. Even the philosophies I had cultivated through a lifetime of contemplation had abandoned me." A desperate plea formed in my mind, echoing through my being and universe.
"What if I cannot find the foundation? I have nothing left!"
"You cannot obtain wisdom if you do not empty your mind? To understand anew, you must first forget. Wisdom is not merely the accumulation of knowledge but the willingness to unlearn when you understand certain perceptions no longer fit your environment. Your mind must be clean."
I was panicking, not ready for Nirvana. Am I going to get back even as imperfect as I am?: "Please, I cannot exist in this void! I need light! I need sound! I will work things out!"
"Do you genuinely need them, or have you just grown dependent on them? Your mind must align with the universe, with nature itself. Yet the philosophies that govern your world are severed from Insight. You mistake control for power and destruction for progress. But nature is not concerned with power - it simply is. And because it is, it will endure, and humanity that isn't - won't unless it starts from basics again.
"Humanity is fragile, for it has built a society based on arrogance rather than harmony. You wield the power to end life on an unfathomable scale, yet you lack the wisdom to preserve it. You are a force of extinction, a cyclone without the eye."
The weight of these words pressed upon me like the gravity of a collapsing star. Was I turning into a Black Hole where all reason disappeared, and nothing came out? Was it panic that inundated me? I could not argue, but I had to get back, even if I had to leave my soul behind.
"Is there redemption?" I gasped.
For the first time, the silence softened. "Redemption exists, but is not given; it is created.
Go. Spread the word."
And then, just as suddenly as it had vanished, light, sound, and sun-bathed golden plains returned, and so did my misery. The hum of existence filled the void, but now that I was given knowledge, it confused me. Two worlds didn't match. I didn't even know where to start. The task was way beyond my capacity.
I'll have to look for help!
Dazed, I stood upon the volcano's edge, trying to internalise and organise the insights imparted by the Mountain. The words had been clear, their implications profound, but I could not see the direction.
Then I realised I was still in a panic. I used to tell everybody: "Never panic!"
That thought calmed things down, and my brain started working again. The instruction was simple: "Return to the basics".
But how far back? And what were the basics?
The Mountain had spoken of alignment with the universe, yet I felt no different, no more attuned than before. I questioned myself, sifting through the meanings of my beliefs: morality, virtue, decency, altruism, love, modesty, kindness. Were these the basics? Or were they merely constructs I had learned to believe in?
No, they were created by humanity. I had to go further back - to the source.
What is the ultimate foundation, the most primal truth?
Then, clarity struck like lightning from the storm cloud.
Survival! Life or death!
Before philosophy, before morality, before love or kindness - there was survival - the fork between existence and nonexistence. Survival was the bedrock upon which all else was built. And at that moment, I understood.
I was standing at the edge, not of a Mountain but of humanity's fate.
We had been given the tools of knowledge and free will. We make choice of how to use them.
Would we wield them as architects of renewal - or as instruments of extinction?
Point of No Return
The report from reputable scientists warns us that a global temperature of 2.9 degrees Celsius will lead to irreversible consequences such as ice loss, sea level rise, and coral reef die-off. We have already passed 1.5 degrees, a critical point below which we should be for the next decade.
We are on our way to 2,9 degrees.
That is a tipping point for global warming that will devastate ecosystems, agriculture, and human populations, causing food scarcity, displacement and death of millions.
The potential consequences of such warming include the collapse of ice sheets, rising sea levels, damage to marine ecosystems, coral reef die-off, permafrost thaw, shifts in weather patterns, and declining crop yields.
2.9 degrees is the point of no return!
People must understand the consequences but also, that situation isn't hopeless.
These are the basics of our strategy.
While the inevitability of environmental catastrophe looms, focusing solely on doomsday scenarios is counterproductive. These dire messages often paralyse rather than motivate. Instead, we should seek inspiration and excitement from the potential for positive change and the tangible benefits of environmental action.
It is crucial to break through the fog of gaslighting and demonstrate that each individual can contribute meaningfully. People with considerable resources should make significant contributions. No one needs to sacrifice their current lifestyle. Involvement in environmental conservation can preserve their way of life and potentially improve it, even generating income through sustainable practices.
Earth's climate has already warmed enough to put humans at risk of triggering five global "tipping points," which include the melting of ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, the rapid thawing of Arctic permafrost, the slowing of the North Atlantic sub-aquatic streams, and tropical coral reef die-off. We must take urgent global action to prevent these tipping points and address the cascading effects they could have on societies and ecosystems.
What Overwhelmed Our Survival Instinct?
At the core of every living being lies the survival instinct, an innate force driving humans, animals, and plants towards self-preservation. Yet, in an ironic twist of mentality, this primal urge is often eclipsed by a more insidious drive: greed. In the contemporary world, survival no longer means securing the necessities of life but has been distorted to prioritise unnecessary material accumulation, often at a significant personal and environmental cost.
The 'boiling frog' allegory illustrates this predicament - a gradual increase in threat goes unnoticed until it's too late. Our survival instincts have been hijacked. Rather than alerting us to the slowly heating waters of climate change and ecological degradation, it looks for the promised comfort.
The mass media and advertising industries spend trillions to capture our attention, shaping our desires and behaviours and steering us toward a consumerist chasm.
This manipulation has profound implications. Societal pressure and targeted marketing create a debt-driven existence for many, chaining them to the grinding wheel self-importance. Such financial burdens distract from the more existential threats to survival - environmental collapse.
The genuine survival instincts lie dormant in the shadows of these misguided necessities. Instead of mobilising against the encroaching dangers, many are trapped in a relentless struggle to uphold a lifestyle imposed by a vain society.
The institutions that promote prosperity through credit are the architects of a system that undermines our ability to address the root causes of the environmental crisis - consumerism.
Reawakening our survival instincts requires a fundamental shift - a shift away from the short-sighted gratification of consumerism to an awareness of our shared fate on a finite planet. It demands a collective realisation that survival in the 21st century isn't just about individual wealth but about sustaining the ecosystems that support all life.
Let’s do it!
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The previous article in the R2,0 series is: DeepSeek in Orbit: Earth's Invisible Guardian
