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In reply to the discussion: Why are men so angry? [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Removing authority will still necessitate that the economic system--whose main objective is to grow infinitely and increase the velocity of energy--can express itself and evolve to accomplish its goals; it is the actual authority. In any case, the very system that enslaves man and demands his labor, while robbing him of freedom and skills he needs for dependence, remains. You cannot change this state unless you fundamentally change how we organize ourselves and how we separate ourself from nature--something currently viewed as a resource for growth.
Simply making everyone work equally for each other (requiring exploitation of labor to produce an aggregate benefit and perpetual economic growth) still makes everyone work and still spoils the earth. We need to end our concept of work as we know it. We need to end our concept of growth and progress as we know it. We need to end our conception of the natural system being a resource bucket. We cannot do these things while clinging to a system that demands we work, grow and spoil the earth (even if we figure out how to tinker its authority away so it can omnipotently express its objectives directly).
So far, all such progressive tinkering of this engine has made evolve to be a ubiquitous, energy-hungry, omni-exploiting machine hurtling us toward planetary sickness. Fortunately, such discussions are near moot because we are headed in the near future to a self-destruct point.