The major purpose for elections in this country is to keep the people from dealing with what is happening to them. The TV watching public likes to be entertained and will be consumed by even very bad theater. This time it is very important that the ploy works because the reality out there is terrifying. How can people not see it? They are blinded by the electoral theater. It eats up resources and energy while the system grinds on and continues to grow and ravage the earth.

I'd like to think that this time was different but I can't. Even Bernie has been gobbled up by the system and we were part of that. Our book said this:

The Global Economy that sustains the civilized world is destroying the biosphere. As a result, civilization, like the Titanic, is on a collision course with disaster. But changing course via the body politic appears to be well nigh impossible, given that much of the populace lives in denial. Why is that? And how did we get into such a fix? In this essay, biologists James Coffman and Donald Mikulecky argue that the reductionist model of the world developed by Western civilization misrepresents life, undermining our ability to regulate and adapt to the accelerating anthropogenic transformation of the world entrained by that very model. An alternative worldview is presented that better accounts for both the relational nature of living systems and the developmental phenomenology that constrains their evolution. Development of any complex system reinforces specific dependencies while eliminating alternatives, reducing the diversity that affords adaptive degrees of freedom: the more developed a system is, the less potential it has to change its way of being. Hence, in the evolution of life most species become extinct. This perspective reveals the limits that complexity places on knowledge and technology, bringing to light our hubristically dysfunctional relationship with the natural world and increasingly tenuous connection to reality. The inescapable conclusion is that, barring a cultural metamorphosis that breaks free of deeply entrenched mental frames that made us what we are, continued development of the Global Economy will lead inexorably to the collapse of civilization.

Note that we said then that bringing about change by politics was well nigh impossible. I thing we can now say that it is impossible.

I have written about the all encompassing damage that reductionist thought has brought upon the human species. We looked deeply into how it has shaped our brains so that we are helpless.

The magnitude of the real problems that face us would make thinking people laugh at the election foolishness rather than be consumed by it.

As each day passes the analysis we presented is verified more and more. The book is banned in the place where I live. I guess the right wing is capable of seeing the danger it presents. Meanwhile most of the left ignores it.

Have fun fiddling as Rome burns. You will not get another chance.