On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 07:40:32 UTC+1, Paul Schlyter wrote:

However, that wouldn't be the first time a human civilization has
been destroyed. It has happened several times before, and mankind
survived that. This time we're too many, we consume too much
resources, and we're too focused on eternal growth, which of course
is impossible within a finite world. That's the lesson we must learn
this time. If we don't learn it voluntarily, the Earth will teach us,
in a quite harsh way.

The use of the "we" misrepresents our total lack of representation even at the most local level. Meanwhile, the most widely hated president in history is rewriting the script to suit his own blind ignorance and sociopathic greed. He has been falsely placed in the position of World's Strongest Man but is clearly a badly brought up and tantrum prone child. "We" are on a fixed course over which "we" have no control. The Proud Emperor is incapable of recognizing his own words and misdeeds yet remains "in power." Where are the real alternatives to his fall? Where is the unblemished man, or woman, of the hour? The One to lift us out of our eternal impasse?

Our global steering system is dangling from a creaking, medieval cart. It is pulled by blindfolded oxen and driven by a blind old man who is facing backwards the way he came.

That only one, clearly deluded person, could initiate a global war to suit his own Twitter fantasies is a global obscenity. We need a sea-shift in representation.

A global, climate disaster would just repeat exactly the same mistakes both before and after The Collapse. Robber barons, warlords and tribal chiefs, each fighting for their turf and their entitlement. Collecting trinkets and slaves to decorate their over-ornamented caves and castles to endless vanity while the people toil and starve at gunpoint.

The present system favours and rewards only those engineered without a conscience. They have so much to lose that they cling to power to the very last drop of "our" spilled blood. It was ever thus and ever more shall be. Billions will die on the whim of an untouchable madman leading a solitary country on a minority vote.

This is not rocket science. It is human history and its far future set impermeably in the oldest granite. It is carved on the tattered and gilded facade of a mental fortress. Constantly reinforced to withstand any change which does not favour the insatiably and pathologically greedy. Whose own corruption is the only currency they recognise.