The religious fanatic is the archetypal example of a status quo terrorist. This person if afraid of EVERYTHING. The vistas of science for these betrayers of intelligence are swept under the collective rug of denial. How pitiful to imagine people so totally in the grip of fear of science. But they fear science because science, perhaps more than anything else in our social dynamic is always plunging headlong into CHANGE.
Of course, many other rivers feed into the rising ocean of change. Our sheer numbers are bankrupting Mother Nature, e.g., climate changes that formerly took ten thousand years are now taking ten. Ozone holes are widening at a frightening rate and dreaded "global warming" is going ballistic. Ironically, the ONLY thing that can save us from this catastrophic unraveling of what's left of our ecosystem is science, but since brain dead religious fundamentalists and corporate fascists are running America's show, our salvation card (i.e., science) is no longer in the deck.
Notice that science is both a source and medicine for social/biological change.
Looked at one way, this piece is very "philosophical" and some will see it as intellectualizing when practical politics is the only game in town. It's hard to find a gentle way of saying that such a view is criminally foolish, since practical politics is exactly what got us into this pit of despair in the first place. Politics is MEANINGLESS in the context of present Earth events and if we don't find the courage and brains to transcend it once and for all, we are dead meat.
So what is this piece about? Very simple. It's suggesting that only a quantum jump into a radically different human mind set can save the Earth (because the Earth is going down the toilet right along with America).
But quantum jump into what? That's easy. More than anything else it's an altered state in which the have and have not horror no longer exists. If we can't find the strength, wisdom, and rage to rid the planet once and for all (HOWEVER WE DO IT!) of astronomically rich parasites, everything else is nauseating moot.
To say it in ordinary language, "rich people" are the cancer of this planet. Jesus saw this to perfection and preached about it much more than anything else -- even though institutionalized Christianity consistently refused to acknowledge this truth by encouraging geezers in dresses to "theologize" away the heartbreak and social passion of Jesus.
If the human race doesn't do whatever it takes to rid the human condition of Greek God like elites, we are doomed to rapid extinction. And it must be said again that politics will NEVER do this, since politics is now and always has been the lapdog (e.g., the Democratic/Republican Party) of the pig, pig rich.
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