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The basis of the economy percolates through all levels of human
activity to become the basis of the character of the people in the
economy, which then becomes the character of the societies and
policies that the people create. In the same way as the Roman Empire
built itself on slave labor - and made the basis of Roman character
cruelty, brutality, conquest, predation, short-sightedness, laziness
and oppression - so the oil economy fosters in people a character that
mimics in its mentality the character of oil industry itself. This
character is toxic, extractive, destructive, short-sighted, polluting,
and ensnaring. And its poisonous influence can only be significantly
reduced through a greater use of clean energy - and greater influence
for life-affirming, intelligent, provident, and socially and
environmentally responsible character that its development and
widespread use stand to foster in humankind.
The oil character is the character of extraction and exploitation, but
that's not remotely the end of it. From combustion of oil, are
encouraged worldviews that see the world as being given, and of man as
only there to burn it without consideration for the rest of the world
or for its future. The planet is seen as there for people to burn; the
people are seen as there only to burn it for present consumption.
Which means that anything that cares for the given world that man has
not created, like anything that cares for the future of the
civilization that man creates, is a competing interest that must be
wiped out by any possible means.
Since the oil resources are finite, the oil character does not see nor
plan for life beyond the time that oil runs out. Any mentality that
sees this, looks for alternatives, or stands to create alternatives,
is mortal enemy to the oil industry. Not only therefore is the oil
character is short-sighted to the point of being apocalyptic and as
such foresees - and effectively works to bring about in its
spirituality, politics and economics – an artificial end of the world;
but far more significantly it is aggressively, imposingly and
overbearingly so, and seeks to stamp out by all measures all that is
not itself.
As people are made dependent on oil industry for their lives and their
livelihood, the economic foundations of life and liberty are likewise
destroyed. All thought systems, spiritualities, psychologies, are
manipulated by this interest toward forcing assimilation into the oil-
industry way of living, but more profoundly into the oil character.
These then are directed directly toward destruction of qualities that
might influence people to not quite like this state of affairs or be
motivated to look for or seek to create better alternatives: qualities
such as knowledge and respect for the planet and nature in all its
complexity and diversity; caring for humanity and its future; ability
to create innovative solutions; and all in the human being –
intellect, curiosity, natural wisdom, compassion, love of life,
humanitarian orientation, and capacity for creative and innovative
thinking – that might make these possible. Which means that destroyed
is not only life and liberty, but also all in people that seeks and
makes possible the above. First the order destroys life and liberty at
economic level; then at spiritual, intellectual, and psychological
levels; then finally at the political level. And then the oil order
sets humanity careening toward planetary destruction while in the
process destroying everything that is of life and liberty in its own
ranks.
The extractive oil character is one of destruction of nature with no
sight for the future and no creative role for man. It pits the
interests of the industry against both what man has not created and
everything that man has created and that he stands to create. Which
means that both nature and mankind become enemies of the industry; and
that creates the most destructive of all conceivable orientations. At
social level, we speak of oil-based mentalities and their orders
subduing, exploiting and driving into extinction all that is life-
affirming at both natural and human level – controlling, expropriating
and deceiving what can be controlled, deceived and expropriated;
demonizing, abusing and destroying what cannot. At the political
level, we speak of oil-funded Texas Fundamentalists claiming
ridiculously to speak for America and then seeking to destroy, screw
and enslave everybody who are not oil-funded Texas-Oklahoma
Fundamentalists, both outside of America and within.
All that is life in nature, and all that is life in man, are targeted
for contamination, discrediting and destruction with eye toward
eternal damnation. This is true for all that is physical and
emotional; it is also true for all that is of the mind. Science,
business, politics, art, relationships, are there to be conquered,
subdued, eviscerated, and made through force and deception to serve
the agenda of artificial Armageddon. Anything that is life-affirming,
is sabotaged, corrupted, contaminated, slandered, defunded,
discredited, undermined, in order that people can be led to believe
the explanations that want to portray life as sin and all its
manifestations as evil. Which people then want to bring about an end
to life as such.
To that end no lie, no cruelty, no violation, no atrocity, is
inacceptable. This is the case among oil-funded states claiming to
profess both Christianity and Islam. The puppet of oil-funded Texas
Fundamentalist acquiring Republican nomination by spreading false
rumors about his opponent, getting in office through corrupt dealings,
putting the government trillions dollars in debt amid collapsing
family incomes, silencing truth about global warming, deceiving
America into a war, and doing what he can to destroy the true
greatness of America - its constitutional democracy, its ingenuity,
its scientific knowledge, its affirmation and preservation of rights
and liberties, its foresight, its humanitarian orientation, its
willingness to lead through true diplomacy rather than barbarism, and
the freedom of speech, thought, and way of life, that has made
possible its accomplishments - while claiming ridiculously to be
making America stronger and greater – this, is only the political
manifestation of the oil character. Its effect on the people within
and on the world without, are even worse.
The oil character does not see man as a creator but only as a
destroyer; thus it destroys man's capacity to create. Its hatred of
nanotechnology, biotech, stem-cell research, genetics, is of the same
mindset as its hatred of innovation, of ingenuity, of individuality
and of art. By sabotaging and eviscerating man's capacity to create,
is destroyed man's capacity to create a long-term and livable future.
It is as such the worst possible way to relate both man and nature,
destroying nature while also destroying man. And from this mentality,
outgrows a toxic, necrophilic, destructive, totalitarian and
apocalyptic character – which then becomes the character of the oil
arrangement, and shapes their economics, their politics, their
spiritual life, and their inter-relations. A character that feeds on
life, poisons life, inhibits life, and seeks to make life
uninhabitable – and uses man's intellect, emotion, physicality,
spirit, everything, toward not merely abusive and totalitarian but in
fact apocalyptic ends.
Driven by oil mentality man destroys nature; then he destroys the
foundations of his own existence. And in the process man's mindset as
well as man's activities mimic the worst practices of the oil industry
- short-sightedness, expropriation, aggressive ignorance, violence
against life at all levels, criminalization and demonization of all
thoughts and characters that may see to the contrary, destruction of
liberty, and apocalyptic totalitarianism. The past life that is fossil
fuel is burned; so through poisoning and global warming is life
present as well as life future. The inheritance of the past is
squandered, the present is poisoned, and the world is set to slide
toward an artificial end. The character that burns dead dinosaurs,
also makes dinosaurs of the living while destroying anything that is
not a dinosaur and anything in people that may lead to clarity as to
the character of the dinosaur ways. And just as dinosaurs died out in
a mass extinction, so has the order based on the burning of the dead
dinosaurs created the fastest extinction in the history of the planet
- the order that now threatens the existence also of humanity itself.
Clean energy, on the other hand, is not based on extraction or on
combustion, nor does it work toward a planet-wide poisoning. Clean
energy is based on transmutation, by high technology, of abundant
energy into usable energy, while generating in the process no poisons
or waste. This process fulfils the energy needs of the civilization,
while being itself non-obtrusive to the planet and its inhabitants.
The achievements, knowledge, prosperity, of civilization, are made
possible through tapping into abundant energy of such sources as the
sun and the oceans, without producing any toxic byproducts and without
poisoning life present or sabotaging yet-to-come. The creative,
constructive uses of human intelligence make it possible for both
nature and civilization to exist – for nature to be accepted and left
as nature, and for man to make the best of man and his world.
This makes the best of the given and the created. The world given that
is nature is known, respected, and left as much alone as possible; the
world created that is the civilization exists in all of what it
capable and reaches, through maximization of intelligent creation and
minimization of waste and destruction, to greater heights with no end
in sight. The mind is not used to blindly destroy, but to
intelligently build on the givens, to provide sustainable long-term
existence for the civilization that man has created, while treading
lightly upon the nature that man has not.
The sun and the ocean water are not at risk of running out for
thousands of years; which means that, with clean energy, the world can
be counted upon to be there for a long time. This allows the people to
conceive and work toward a future that is indefinite rather than one
that will end when the predatory oil-funded dinosaurs extinguish the
life on the planet while telling people that it is punishment from God
and using that to suffocate them still more. Life can go on, in both
natural and human aspects, and people can plan and work towards a
viable long-term future for themselves and for humanity. This builds
in people the habits that are prudent, responsible, viable and
conducive to life.
Clean energy recognizes, validates, and respects both nature and man,
and makes most and not the least of life in both aspects. Nature is
not just resources to be burned for consumption without regard for the
future; it is something that is respected for its variety and richness
and life-generative capacity - while man, rather than being merely a
short-sighted destroyer, becomes an intelligent creator who builds on
the knowledge of science and technology to create a livable future and
livable world. Prosperity is not sacrificed; it is enhanced and
extended. And so is livability of the planet, as well as of
civilization itself.
The high levels of technology needed to put in place solar beams and
similar devices encourage and validate the view of humanity as
intelligent beings responsible for the destiny of both humanity and
the planet, while also drawing on - making constructive use of - and
fostering - in people inventive intelligence, long-term perspective,
generative capacity, responsibility for the future, eye toward maximal
benefit and minimal destruction, and greater understanding of, respect
for, and caring for, the world - both in the given, natural aspect,
and in the human, man-created, form. The mentality and character that
is encouraged, both in people and in their social and economic and
political activities, is therefore one that makes most of these
virtues. It is the character that not only makes possible to
indefinitely power the civilization while being minimally obtrusive to
nature, but also fosters a nobler, more prudent, more responsible,
more creative, more nonobtrusive, and more life-affirming and life-
extending character in the people who would inhabit such a
civilization - and, pursuant this, in the character of the orders that
they stand to create.
Not only does clean energy therefore lead to a viable future, but it
also fosters a more viable character in the people and consequently in
the economic, political, and social orders that they create. From
predatory destroyers eating alive the world and engorging themselves
in the process, people become intelligent human beings who work toward
a sustainable future in which the natural world can keep living, as
civilization remains existing and achieves ever greater heights. The
qualities of clean energy economy - responsibility toward the future,
high levels knowledge, inventiveness and intelligence, use of mind to
create, sustaining and growing the civilization while taking care to
tread lightly upon the planet, life-affirming character that uses mind
for constructive solutions that maximize creation and minimizes
destruction, and respect found by intelligence for what man has not
created as well as respect earned by intelligence for opting for and
implementing this arrangement - will become more and more the
substance of people's characters and percolate more and more to their
social and political interactions to impart to them greater levels of
these virtues. And that is a positive influence not only for the
chance of the world to have a viable future, but also for the
character of the people who stand to inherit the world.
Ilya Shambat
http://www.myspace.com/ibshambat
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