Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation

[DonCoquixote]

138. yes,and

while you may not mean any evil by it, it is also an invitation to genocide and atrocity of the worst order. Many have tried to go back to some vision of a primitive time, like when Pol Pot dragged everyone to the countryside and killed anyone who had glasses. The result was something that did not make for a healthy lifestyle.

It is very easy to listen to a Derrick Jannsen or others preach that "civilization is the problem" and that we could go back to some imagined idea of what the First Peoples lived.

And I do not mean to even talk about computers or electricity..

How many of you are reading this with glasses?
How many have had your wisdom teeth out?
How many of you had, or know someone, who has had a "c"section,
or a cataract removed?
Or a vaccine for Polio?

Furthermore, when you talk of using (actually taking) First nations spirituality, you also have to ask yourself,
aren't we going back to RELIGION?
Do we need to believe in the air being thick with spirits to know that we should not poison our water?
Or to raise our children right?
Do we need what Carl Sagan called "The Demon haunted world?" because sorry to say, even sophisticated spirituality like the First nations world is JUST THAT, despite it being much better than the pig God of Abraham and it's spawn.

My point is this,we do need to imagine a different age,a less greedy age, a more mature age,one that allows for cooperation and heroism. But if we try to go to some simpler time and run from our own intelligence, we will only wind up making a LOT of the mistakes that we have already paid too high a price to learn, and no, we will not be safer, or better fed, or any more at peace.