The New Mass Extinction: There’s A Pipeline Ready To Burst Under The Great Lakes

[ladjf]

115. Good point. What we haven't

figured out as yet, is how to topple the control of the oligarchy.

The human race is very clever with short term innovation but ignores obvious long range problems stemming from out behavior.

Greed and conceit seem to be at the root of our destructiveness.

Greed is a natural animal survival instinct. We need to understand that our survival would be more likely if we could get control of our basic greed. Conceit emerges from the a world view that is highly self-centered. This type of thinking is inherited from parents and peers, particularly through religious training that teachings "theo-centric views", translated to "self-centric views".

A familiarity with the major principles of known Cosmology is helpful in realizing that the individual is most definitely the center of existence. Further, that understanding is conducive to objective cognitive processes.