We live in a collapsing civilisation stepping into a cliff with its eyes closed. Fascist hate-stirrers promise to magically extinguish inflation while ignoring what is actually causing it: a climate crisis with a lethal magic trick of its own: not only will food become expensive beyond belief. It will vanish, as the audience suddenly realise that they are not watching a magic act, but a morbid cabaret. The theatre is about to eat them alive.
Yet the general public is stupid enough to think that food grows on supermarket shelves. They complain about prices as if they are entitled to milk and eggs at a low price, unaware that even today’s prices are extremely low compared to what’s coming. Most consumatrons do not realise that food comes from nature, because they don’t know what nature is. But anyone who is a farmer or gardener is witnessing the food, climate and ecological apocalypse in real time, every day when they go out to visit their garden or plot. They know, because their eyes are wide open: they are paying attention, because they have no other choice. They are connected to nature, as all humans used to be before they barricaded themselves inside “civilisations”.
Our society would have stood a chance if instead of the pointless “education” preparing them to become working zombies, children were given a small plot of land at birth, to take care of for the next 20 years. If they failed, they would not graduate however fancy grades they got in math, literature or machine learning.
So many teachers have privately said to me that teaching children today is increasingly becoming a ridiculous exercise in delusion, as they prepare students for careers that won’t exist in a collapsed civilisation: these children will live in a world where the things they learn will be utterly useless.
It is time for this civilisation to stop indoctrinating itself with lullabies and tell its children the bitter truth. The earlier they know, the more likely it is that they will take the decisions which we ourselves were too selfish, greedy, and distracted to take. They deserve to know the truth. Because this collapse is the only inheritance they get from us.
George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist. You can follow him on Twitter @99blackbaloons
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Agreed but who’s going to listen? Let’s face it George, most people are self indulgent pigs who can’t see past their own wants, that they identify as needs. Look at who just got elected President of The United States of America. You can’t get through to a populace who thinks like that. Sit back, put your feet up, light up a stogie, pour a shot of single malt and watch the show. Cheers, KG
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George,
KG (greymerica) has a point, but the pig out is largely wired from heredity (genes, microbiome, viruses, prions, epigenetic RNA, …) and experiences – all physical (energy-matter-information) and embodied in us. Encountering the physical present, the result is determined by the combination. Free will is vastly overrated.
Teaching kids ‘old skills’ is a wise idea. Most parents in the developed (rich) world don’t have the skills themselves. Most parents are psychically incapable of conceiving that the future for their progeny looks dark. My son and his wife rebuff my offer to set them up on a small farm. They like the cozy neighborhood near Smith College, and have professional careers (professor and MD)
Last point is that nobody knows the timeline for a collapse, or if it will be a gradual decline. I think waiting until 13-14 years of age is a better idea than floating certainty of doom to younger kids. Many would become depressed, lose motivation for learning, and some might become suicidal.
I forgot to include this which explains our drive for energy throughput:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_principle
As you have, multiple times in the past!