“Instead of intelligently investing in infrastructure, health care, education, environmental and social intelligence… the US decided to invest, over the past 19 years, (4+) trillions of dollars in »war. This is the window where the threats of environmental, social and economic catastrophe rapidly approached… and perhaps outstripped… the potential for the human species to address them. This is a tragic and common theme in the history of supercultures, nations, and large societies. When it becomes clear that their priorities have catastrophic consequences — they will often tend to double-down on them. Thus ‘scarcity’ (i.e. extinction) is briefly converted to economic value, and social or environmental atrocity is converted (briefly) to extreme profit for a tiny population of elites. It is absolutely imperative to the future of life on Earth that we establish a superculture, perhaps one that is embedded in »all the existing nations — whose priorities can successfully oppose this inclination — and whose citizens can empower each other to embody a new developmental tier in human social evolution. What we are experiencing today is the blatant opposite of intelligent culture. And very little can survive this for very much longer.” — an anonymous informant

“Instead of intelligently investing in infrastructure, health care, education, environmental and social intelligence… the US decided to invest, over the past 19 years, (4+) trillions of dollars in »war. This is the window where the threats of environmental, social and economic catastrophe rapidly approached… and perhaps outstripped… the potential for the human species to address them.

This is a tragic and common theme in the history of supercultures, nations, and large societies. When it becomes clear that their priorities have catastrophic consequences — they will often tend to double-down on them. Thus ‘scarcity’ (i.e. extinction) is briefly converted to economic value, and social or environmental atrocity is converted (briefly) to extreme profit for a tiny population of elites.

It is absolutely imperative to the future of life on Earth that we establish a superculture, perhaps one that is embedded in »all the existing nations — whose priorities can successfully oppose this inclination — and whose citizens can empower each other to embody a new developmental tier in human social evolution. What we are experiencing today is the blatant opposite of intelligent culture. And very little can survive this for very much longer.”

— an anonymous informant