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Then there’s the example of the scientist describing the situation in the womb in the seventh month. Getting crowded and troubled. Eighth month worse and worse. Ninth . . . holy s%$t. Then the even more constricted birth canal and the immersion into a “new world” and lord-a-mercy a big flowing breast.
I don’t think this scenario is automatic, guaranteed or done for us, but I do think that this growth into limits and finding a way through (or not) is an evolutionary driver, how evolution works. Apparently there was a time when early life was poisoned by the growing amounts of oxygen in the air and it had to develop to “breathe” it.
My point is that this story may have some surprising developments.We know the system as is will implode. The careful descriptions of the slo mo crumbling can be mesmerizing. I love reading them here. The danger is that we’ll assume a helplessness before them, a resignation or cynicism or isolationist stockpiling.
We’re a smart species and we’re smart individuals.
We evolved through striving for local advantage in a world of competition for resources. Now survival means something different but we’re still in the old mindset that worked for so long – “us” vs “them”. There’s only “us” now imho.
Can we develop new models and for those of us who can see the writing on the wall, do something locally? There are lots of “new models” and Alex Anton provided a beauty on this site very recently . . .
https://theautomaticearth.org/Earth/from-crisis-to-crisis-zimbabwe-to-greece-to-montana.htmlSomething’s dying and something’s being born. Things are bad, but there’s lots we can do to help the baby.
Shows how the power of one (or two) can be influential. The example of purple hats is a simple one, but the thresholds for new ideas are difficult to quantify. Some agents may be better able than others to sense the thresholds of others, sense ideas waiting to happen that is.
Who knows who`s carrying the idea that will cause the emergent thang to happen . . .
