319 / Looking for Comfort in Collapse
The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent
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The intersecting catastrophes unspooling all around us don’t offer an escape from reality, but an intensification of it. So we have a choice: (1) Accept this reality. Accept the full toxic soup of conditions we’ve put ourselves in, as well as the thick, messy, profoundly human dramas playing out amidst it. And awaken to the burdens — of grief,
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• post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)
• post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)
• post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),
• post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)
• post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive
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