Today I am looking at two idea’s I consider quite important and roughly equal.
The two in no particular order is priority and the end game.
Priority is simple this, what is our priority? What should we focus on.
and the end game is just that, what is our end game? Not in terms of
either species extinction or individual extinction, but in terms of what is next for us
as a cultural or a civilization. Part of our problem has been we don’t have a goal or something
to aim for as a society. We just have more of the same materialist buying which has a very
negative effect on society because this type of materialism has only one ending which is the
depletion of our resources and this is a one way street ending in the extinction of the human race.
So what should our priority be and what should our end game be?
As it is a collective decision, all of us, we must decide together how we are going to
prioritize our efforts. This is clearly one of the major failing of capitalism that no
collective decision such as this is possible in a capitalist system because capitalism
is against such decisions because everything is individual choice (or so goes the theory).
the point to be made is individually we cannot make any type of decision that is gonna
to make some difference. we must decide together because it affects all of us and our children
(should we last that long) I have on several occasions brought up the idea of space exploration
and I firmly believe that is where our priority and end game should be. Not to abandon the earth,
but to take the stress off the earth by moving millions onto other planets thus ensuring our species
and the earth’s survival. Again, we are talking about the end game. Not like a Christian who
seems to take special delight in the end times where everyone dies, no. the fact is we, in
American especially, have lost the sense of what is next? We have no idea what our end game is
or even if we have an end game. I don’t see any politician addressing the future in such a way
that makes sense. The GOP candidates want to recreate some past glory in returning America to
“greatness” but you can’t go home again and any such solutions are doomed to fail because
they are the past’s solutions, not present or future solutions. We have our eyes fixed firmly
on the past whereas we must have our eyes fixed firmly on the future because we have already
been to the past and the present is right now but the future, that is the road we are going to take.
It hasn’t happened yet and can be changed with our actions. So what future do you want? What future
do you want for your kids? What future do you want for your species? It is only by first thinking about
what you want and then, making that possible happen, can it happen. In other words, you make the
future! What are you going to do? The responsibility is yours. You cannot shirk it, you cannot hide
and say, its not my problem because it is your future, your responsibility. Deny all you want, but
you cannot hide from the future. What will the future be?
Kropotkin