Pegi Eyers
Why is there so much climate denialism, and why do humans refuse to enact the austerity measures or divestments that would save our world? It’s because the supreme dominance of Christianity (man has dominion over creation) plus the Enlightenment (nature is not to be respected or feared, but is a warehouse of lifeless objects to plunder), coupled with the rapacious goals of capitalism has led modern technocrats to believe that THEY are the gods. Every massive forest removal, resource extraction, mountain blasting, tunneling, river damming, earth paving, agribusiness, gargantuan building project, or giant tower that pierces the sky, represents a level of terraforming only the gods [forces of nature] are capable of performing. So we humans ARE the new gods.
We alter and control the sacred elements of water, earth, fire and air at our will, we fly in the sky whenever we want, we cross vast continents in a couple of days, we have access to food and objects from all over the world, we control vast networks as leaders or oligarchs, we govern the mini-kingdoms of our own domestic spheres, we are complicit with hierarchies of domination, we oppress our fellow humans because of consumer capitalism, and every single day, we make life-and-death decisions for the rest of Earth Community. We are the grand domesticators of all life, and thanks to science, are also immune to illness and disease.
We live within a bizarre simulacrum that we have created for ourselves – a humancentric civilization in which each and every one of us has immense power at our fingertips. As modelled to us for centuries now by the elite Empire-builders, anything is possible!!! Any innovative idea has the potential to improve our lives!!! Any innovative action allows us to be more serene and in-charge!!! And according to New Age theology, we manifest our own reality!!!
We alter and control the sacred elements of water, earth, fire and air at our will, we fly in the sky whenever we want, we cross vast continents in a couple of days, we have access to food and objects from all over the world, we control vast networks as leaders or oligarchs, we govern the mini-kingdoms of our own domestic spheres, we are complicit with hierarchies of domination, we oppress our fellow humans because of consumer capitalism, and every single day, we make life-and-death decisions for the rest of Earth Community. We are the grand domesticators of all life, and thanks to science, are also immune to illness and disease.
We live within a bizarre simulacrum that we have created for ourselves – a humancentric civilization in which each and every one of us has immense power at our fingertips. As modelled to us for centuries now by the elite Empire-builders, anything is possible!!! Any innovative idea has the potential to improve our lives!!! Any innovative action allows us to be more serene and in-charge!!! And according to New Age theology, we manifest our own reality!!!
No wonder we have internalized the belief that WE ARE INVINCIBLE, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, WE ARE THE GODS. There is no higher power than the human will to succeed, and if domination is the route to success, so be it. In whatever domain we master – whether in spaces of commerce, industry, politics, academia, entertainment spectacle or the domestic sphere – there is no greater force than the will of the human being. So if we are indeed gods [or equal, if not superior to, the forces of nature] why in the world would we now, at this late date, and after centuries of being told we are superior, begin to acquiesce to the hurricane, the mudslide, the drought, the heat, the forest fire, the killer snowstorm, the atmospheric river or the bomb-cyclone? There must be some mistake – WE are the natural forces on the planet now, NOT nature herself. We cannot imagine changing our activities to respect some higher power [i.e. nature], as WE ARE THAT HIGHER POWER.
Climate disaster and massive change is only a temporary glitch, as we humans will soon subdue and control those unruly forces as well. Why admit that climate change is something to worry about, when it is WE who have the final say on EVERYTHING? Why admit that we are not in charge, when clearly WE ARE?
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The God Complex is a set of delusions we now carry…………at our peril.
Climate disaster and massive change is only a temporary glitch, as we humans will soon subdue and control those unruly forces as well. Why admit that climate change is something to worry about, when it is WE who have the final say on EVERYTHING? Why admit that we are not in charge, when clearly WE ARE?
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The God Complex is a set of delusions we now carry…………at our peril.
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