My response to ‘what are we doing’ on a post by an FB friend. Of course, I wanted that question to read ‘what are we doing wrong’… so that’s the one I answered?

0. There was nearly zero recognition that our form of intelligence, formal representational cognition, is fraught with dangers that, if allowed to propagate unopposed, will not merely wipe out our species… but have a good shot at wiping out life on Earth, forever. The way our species relates with language and knowledge is, for the moment, totally lethal, and produces societies that are openly omnicidal.

1. ‘we’ is a misnomer — because we never established anything resembling an actual we, yet, in language, ‘we’ can lie about this endlessly. The passive ‘victim’-we is the bizarrely depopulated remnant of what might have been an actual, intentionally composed society. Without those? We’re fucked.

2. We failed to establish contexts in which the faculties and powers of our potential humanity and intelligence were celebrated, defended, rewarded, and advanced (promoted).

3. Kleptocracies have ruled the world at least since the industrial revolution.

4. We paid attention to distractions like ‘climate change’ when omnicidal ‘whole environment’ toxicification agendas progressed explosively over 50 years.

5. Nothing resembling actual educational infrastructure was ever established or sustained.

6. The Republican agendas of wiping out health care, education, infrastructure investment and other crucial aspects of modern social catalysts was primarily unopposed and unimaginably successful. The average B+, white, middle-class jr. college student circa 1994 could not compose a sentence in English.

7. Our primary strengths lie in small, tightly-knit, ‘expert’ groups (pods). Humans are pod animals, but instead of capitalizing on this, we allowed Elites to capitalize on selling us counterfeits of this for the sake of profit.

8. While everyone has heard of human population growth, nearly no one attended the fact of object and machine proliferation. We can probably survive 7.5 billion humans, we cannot survive trillions of machines, cars… and »data that we now have to compete for survival against.

I could go on for, probably, days.