[cougar_w]

You make an interesting point. And I don’t think that it is crazy at all. Though as a practical matter we might be doing better if we really did live ernestly in our own past; in the past we were forced to live sustainable lives and as a rule were more aware of our surroundings.

These days, most of us live in a dream state, as if drugged. The drug of course is a toxic cocktail made of distraction media, corporate propaganda, government lies, stylized violence, and war. Whoever is drinking it ends up fogged over, self-deluded, detached from reality and yes essentially dead from the neck up. You can drink it for a day and end up drugged for a year, drink for a year and end up drugged for a decade. It doesn’t help that the cocktail is really, really tasty and highly addictive, nor does it help that most of us have been drinking it from birth.

IMO we in “the west” are not going to make it, not going to turn the corner. We’re toast. I limit my observation to “the west” because I don’t have any personal experience with the situation in Asia, Africa or S. America. However my guess is that everyone is so economically and politically entangled now that I can probably just say “we” and mean most of humanity — are not going to turn the corner.

But it is as you observe a self-limiting kind of problem. We will become less confused — and necessarily fewer — and we will become so shortly, is my sense.

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