Beautifully articulated! I wonder however if the system is the way it is, not because someone designed it that way, but because that's what would form given the ingredients (people). Can humans behold this planet without greed? Won't ingenuity always create assymetric power dynamics? Won't those dynamics reinforce themselves?
The only way we might evolve from this is by the collapse of ecology. Civilization (pretty much everything you described) won't make it through, but it may be the only chance that humanity has to grow up and evolve.
As such, whether we walk away or whether we end up not being able to walk at all.. the result will be the same.
On jpeg collapse : I love that summaries from think tanks that say on one hand that 1) AI will cause unemployment but 2) there will be growth in soft skill employment like HR, therapy, and nursing. How obtuse to suggest that we'll need HR when they are also predicting employment collapse. And who will be able to pay for therapy without a job?
We are normalizing 3 degrees of warming just like we're normalizing a pedophile and his enablers as the leaders of the world.
Civilization isn't worth saving. No need to burn it down.. it's already dead. The only movement left is the blood running out. Soon that will be done and it will belong to the kingdom of fungi. I think it's only a matter of years at the rate we're devolving.
From your lips to God's ear with "A new infinite game of the Geotribal era begins," from a fellow fan of "Finite and Infinite Games" that long ago tuned me into how we operate. Today I had a sort of parallel post to yours, with evidence of how we could be starting to emerge from the abyss we've fallen into: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/something-is-stirring-in-the-land.
A first step is awareness. That creates a gameboard. Determining what we'll play is next.
That's a good synopsis of the systemic mess we're in and where we could walkaway. There are so many misaligned incentives right now. It's heartbreaking.
Great point — and I agree, walking toward something shared and life-giving is the deeper goal.
But first, we have to walk away from the systems that are collapsing — not to escape, but to release the illusion they can be fixed. This is about dissolving power, not seizing it. About refusing to keep feeding a game we no longer believe in.
Walking away isn’t the end. It’s the beginning.
The turning point where we stop resisting the old…
and start embodying the new.
Only then can we truly walk toward something better — together.
Great article, agree on the need for finding alternatives. Appreciate your referencing other works for further reading too.
Thanks for the comment.
Beautifully articulated! I wonder however if the system is the way it is, not because someone designed it that way, but because that's what would form given the ingredients (people). Can humans behold this planet without greed? Won't ingenuity always create assymetric power dynamics? Won't those dynamics reinforce themselves?
The only way we might evolve from this is by the collapse of ecology. Civilization (pretty much everything you described) won't make it through, but it may be the only chance that humanity has to grow up and evolve.
As such, whether we walk away or whether we end up not being able to walk at all.. the result will be the same.
On jpeg collapse : I love that summaries from think tanks that say on one hand that 1) AI will cause unemployment but 2) there will be growth in soft skill employment like HR, therapy, and nursing. How obtuse to suggest that we'll need HR when they are also predicting employment collapse. And who will be able to pay for therapy without a job?
Excellent point. Thanks.
We are normalizing 3 degrees of warming just like we're normalizing a pedophile and his enablers as the leaders of the world.
Civilization isn't worth saving. No need to burn it down.. it's already dead. The only movement left is the blood running out. Soon that will be done and it will belong to the kingdom of fungi. I think it's only a matter of years at the rate we're devolving.
From your lips to God's ear with "A new infinite game of the Geotribal era begins," from a fellow fan of "Finite and Infinite Games" that long ago tuned me into how we operate. Today I had a sort of parallel post to yours, with evidence of how we could be starting to emerge from the abyss we've fallen into: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/something-is-stirring-in-the-land.
A first step is awareness. That creates a gameboard. Determining what we'll play is next.
Thanks for your comment Sue. Yes on awareness as the first step.
That's a good synopsis of the systemic mess we're in and where we could walkaway. There are so many misaligned incentives right now. It's heartbreaking.
Yes Dawn. Once you become aware of misaligned incentives then you see them everywhere.
I know it’s splitting hairs, but framing is everything.
Can we start think less about walking away and more about walking toward. Less about leaving and exiting, more about arriving and joining.
It really does focus us on what we have and can hold in common.
Great point — and I agree, walking toward something shared and life-giving is the deeper goal.
But first, we have to walk away from the systems that are collapsing — not to escape, but to release the illusion they can be fixed. This is about dissolving power, not seizing it. About refusing to keep feeding a game we no longer believe in.
Walking away isn’t the end. It’s the beginning.
The turning point where we stop resisting the old…
and start embodying the new.
Only then can we truly walk toward something better — together.