Take the loss of global biodiversity. The denialist would say, "Environmentalists exaggerate the threat of extinction just to get attention." The optimist would say: "It sounds really bad, but nature is resilient, and ecologists are resourceful. Why, just the other day they discovered a frog they thought was extinct for decades!" The magical thinker combines that optimism with a self-interest that can take root when a solution to a problem conflicts in some way with their identity or values, or simply takes too much effort and time. "Smartphones use rare-earth metals mined in biodiversity hotspots? Awful," the magical thinker would say. "I love gorillas. But as a busy working mom, I cannot give up my phone. Someone will find a safer source of metals before long." This discomforting cognitive disson....

The social and environmental perils
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/27/the-social-and-environmental-perils-of-magical-thinking_partner/

Trump, conservatives, fundamentalists, GOP, Divine Justice, or Poetic Justice, if you like.

Of the movie Dogma, the vague recollection I have is that part of it is a angel gone bad? Ben Affleck? Wrecks and destroys everything.
Trump is a brilliant sociopath, clinically, buffoon. The Republicans are totally mutilated Souls, our fault, and they are succeeding and will succeed in the total Destruction of everything decent. It is Armageddon that will not be stopped.

And it is completely just. Is it not? Who Among Us can look in the mirror and say, I have completely followed, I have aggressively followed, I have substantially followed, what I know in my soul to be good, above all else?

Not one in a million in the last seven thousand years can say this. What the f*** did we think was going to happen?

No, and I do not believe in the evil destructive thought of some Sky man God that is orchestrating this. We deserve all the credit, our neglect and perpetration.

Stop! F****** stop! The notion of Utopia is a poison to exactly that. What? External. Always about external. Never about the internal. What? The only Utopia could......

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/14/black-mirror-literary-utopias-offer-the-seeds-of-better-real-life?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1557830221

Stop! F****** stop! The notion of Utopia is a poison to exactly that. What? External. Always about external. Never about the internal. What? The only Utopia could see a place of near total extreme Humanity, goodness, within each citizen. Only when the individual bricks have such Integrity can the overall structure in body Integrity. Who writes this? Who reads this? Who wants this? No one. Because wherever we are given fish deadly distracting impossible delaying ideas. Be the change the world needs to see. There is no other answer. No other answer has ever been or ever will be possible.

Pretty much no one wants to believe anything except what they want to believe. Truth is just irritating.

Pretty much no one wants to believe anything except what they want to believe. Truth is just irritating.

I take no hope or comfort in little bits of hopefulness. Quite the opposite. We will avoid......

I take no hope or comfort in little bits of hopefulness. Quite the opposite. We will avoid...... saving the world precisely because we find little bits of Hope to keep us in our comfort zone and on the sidelines. The Guardian newspaper, which usually I'm grateful for today ran an article on the seven hopeful things, megatrends, that might avert global warming. F*** them. We don't have a problem with people finding reasons to stay on the sidelines. That's not our problem.

The fundamental void is that not 10, not 5 people that I see face the question , what will it take to stop the machine in time? There is no hope until that changes.

The fundamental void is that not 10, not 5 people that I see face the question , what will it take to stop the machine in time? There is no hope until that changes.

In 13 years of upfront DC experience I have seen little difference between mass demonstrations in Washington DC and mass masturbation. Maybe......

In 13 years of upfront DC experience I have seen little difference between mass demonstrations in Washington DC and mass masturbation. Maybe someday it will be different. I don't expect so but I would be happy to be wrong. The one thing I'm certain that such one two three or four day demonstrations accomplishes is to show our opposition how completely and totally un-serious we are. That we are unprepared to pay even remotely the price  required to stop them. With these pitiful self-pleasuring efforts we announce our unconditional unilateral surrender. Hell we Delight our opposition  as they watch us bleed what little time and energy we have into totally impotent meaningless efforts. There is no history or tested theoey of civil resistance, nonviolent Warfare, or violent Warfare, that suggests that such Washington DC demonstrations are other than what I say. Not that anyone cares. We like what makes us feel good, screw the next seven generations. Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to be the revolution.

We will post about heroics in the past and ideas for today until our fingers bleed. Nothing is too much for our children and grandchildren, well, except actually spending our life limb and treasure.

We will post about heroics in the past and ideas for today until our fingers bleed. Nothing is too much for our children and grandchildren, well, except actually spending our life limb and treasure.

***** Avoiding unpleasantness is not the reason for denial, not the primary reason. Avoiding unpleasantness is not the reason that we limit how much ugliness we are willing to see on Facebook, how much unpl......

***** Avoiding unpleasantness is not the reason for denial, not the primary reason. Avoiding unpleasantness is not the reason that we limit how much ugliness we are willing to see on Facebook, how much unpleasantness we allow to become Central in so-called activism or in the nature of the so-called activism we have been willing to practice these last forty years or so. The primary function of denial is not to avoid unpleasantness, it is to avoid becoming loving, it is to avoid Gandhi's Truth Force, to avoid what happens when Awful Truth makes it past our denial system and hits our heart. It activates our heart, it hijacks our nervous system, and turns us near irresistibly into Insanely Humane (INSHE) Warrior antiviolent Servants of righteousness, Servants of what is Right, Servants of what our human family most needs of us, what all of our fellow life forms need of us. God forbid.... So, as the central one of our many contributions to the extermination of all life on Earth, we f****** baby boomers, our central contribution has been the activism-ino-ism of the last 40 years which is so careful to be sure that we conduct ourselves in a way that it is attractive, it is fun, it is Pleasant, it is something that people want to do, to 'join' ( a social club with a thin veneer of activism )... thereby scrupulously and absolutely avoiding bringing online truth Force, the heart, soul Force, loving... the only force in the universe that could overcome the largest mercenary force that Earth has ever seen. Brilliant. Murder.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, the solution to climate change is horribly simple. We westerners and those consuming at our level need to stop consuming, and to devote our resources and lives to repairing the billions of lives around the globe that we have destroyed and or put in catastrophic Jeopardy. That's what would happen the degree to which we returned to become loving creatures, as are our Aboriginal sisters and brothers, and most human beings below the age of 2. Nothing else will save our species or the others. Ridiculous, yes. True? Absolutely. Everything else is delusion and delay delay.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, the solution to climate change is horribly simple. We westerners and those consuming at our level need to stop consuming, and to devote our resources and lives to repairing the billions of lives around the globe that we have destroyed and or put in catastrophic Jeopardy. That's what would happen the degree to which we returned to become loving creatures, as are our Aboriginal sisters and brothers, and most human beings below the age of 2. Nothing else will save our species or the others. Ridiculous, yes. True? Absolutely. Everything else is delusion and delay delay.

***** The World Is Not Converting to Renewable Energy Fast Enough to Save It

http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/the_world_is_not_converting_to_renewable_energy_fast_enough_20160328

Extremely insightful article I'm listening to on alternate, why is David Brooks so very afraid. Brooks is a New York Times writer. http://www.alternet.org/media/why-david-brooks-so-very-afraid

http://www.alternet.org/media/why-david-brooks-so-very-afraid

We’re No. 16! Why Donald Trump’s boorish American exceptionalism is so wrong

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/30/were_no_16_why_donald_trumps_boorish_american_exceptionalism_is_so_wrong/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

***** I think that kindness, charity, are criminal, self-serving, cowardly luxuries from the over-privileged like me behind which we hide from our moral duty of lived solidarity with the global neediest. I am sorry for this lifelong error of mine.

***** I think that kindness, charity, are criminal, self-serving, cowardly luxuries from the over-privileged like me behind which we hide from our moral duty of lived solidarity with the global neediest. I am sorry for this lifelong error of mine.

nd. Denial: fighting to bury the truth that is within yourself.

Denial: fighting to bury the truth that is within yourself.

Supreme Court slap down regulations on coal mercury. Truly, this is excellent news. The sum total of environmental progress is not the tiniest fraction of what is required to save a livable future. This is one more undeserved wake call for the caatonic, over-privileged, liberals that so far refuse to break a sweat to give their children, nieces, nephews, themselves... a future worth living.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/29/supreme-court-air-pollution-epa-coal-plants

Pic. I often think that the epitaph on the soon to be laid tombstone of creation will be, "It was all destroyed by human Denial and Delusion, both of which.....

I often think that the epitaph on the soon to be laid tombstone of creation will be, "It was all destroyed by human Denial and Delusion, both of which are clinical mental diseases with which they gleefully, greedily, infected themselves ( most importantly the over privileged liberals who denied their personal duty to pay whatever personal price was necessary to stop the more  socially, emotionally, intellectually, and financially underprivileged ).

Lip service from liberals is more of the same snake oil that has now all but drowned to death any future worth living.

Lip service from liberals is more of the same snake oil that has now all but drowned to death any future worth living.

Don't be the coward I was. I devoted near 30 years to a partnership with the most blindingly talented person imaginable... and only after all that time faced that I couldn't think of a year, month, week,day, hour or minute..., literally, actually, truly... when that individual was devoted to me, my needs, my goals, my joy, my wellbeing........

Don't be the coward I was.  I devoted near 30 years to a partnership with the most blindingly talented person imaginable... and only after all that time faced that I couldn't think of a year, month, week,day,  hour or minute..., literally, actually, truly... when that individual was devoted to me, my needs, my goals, my joy, my wellbeing...  I DO think there was a moment, literally, here, and a moment there, over those decades.  I just can't think of even one, nor one year, month... second that I was not devoted to the same for this partner. My cowardly unwillingness to face the Truth was bad for this partner, and bad for me, and bad for what else I might have devoted myself to in service to the world's neediest.

The people that do not make negative posts, and or object to them, are in pathological denial how dire the future is in every aspect, primarily due exactly to that pathological denial.

The people that do not make negative posts, and or object to them, are in pathological denial how dire the future is in every aspect, primarily due exactly to that pathological denial.