The situation that you describe so clearly, J, is indeed horrendous; the source of lots of these Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on August 6, 2019, 4:46 pm, in reply to "Re: And here's Kit Knightly at Off-G with some more red-hot-relevant information -"
poor psychologically and spiritually unmoored young people. And if you buy into the great myth of our time, of linear 'progress' to an ever more technology-oppressed future, the thought can only be that it will keep getting worse: Koyaanisqatsi on steroids! Cold comfort though it may be, I reckon that that's not possible; that we are, on the contrary, heading into a time when the current hyper-communication splurge will die away, under the relentless pressure of the Synergising Global Crises, as they steadily undo our hitech industrial base - which is what makes the hypercommunication physically possible; which is its sine qua non, in fact; and which won't be with us to the present extreme degree for much longer. When that dismantling is completed, some time next century if we're lucky, the dreadful psycho-spiritual conditions that afflict so many people now will have changed drastically. After the big take-down, and the following fallow and recuperation period, psychically-healthy communities will probably re-emerge. But it seems that we now have some really dark times to go through first - probably; but not certainly. Bloody hell! Open-minded scepticism is such a damned effort sometimes, isn't it? Cheers, J!
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