PROPOSAL:
Set up a global, democratic methodology for a sustainable Earth.
Make a choice - don’t
just be a corpse in a war, a corpuscle in someone’s river of blood, a core-pulse in a pandemic…
Divide humanity into groups
of 150 (monkeysphere care limit).
Three votes per person:
1) Elect 1 of your 150
to be saved – supply reasons, can’t vote for yourself
2) Elect 1 living world-leading
figure – supply reasons
3) Choose your preferred
means of termination for yourself & loved ones
WHY?:
To sustain us all in the
lifestyle of a average US
citizen (without accounting for expected population rises) now requires the resources of 5 Earths.
Take the quiz to see how
much your lifestyle would use: http://ecofoot.org/
(My lifestyle requires
4.8 Earths if everyone lived like me!) Try it.
Global warming, plague,
floods, fire, starvation, war, poverty, displacement etc – all feared by all as these kill at random.
Humans don’t really
care about anyone beyond their monkeysphere
(http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html)
– we get distressed by deaths with names attached but only shocked,
not galvanized into action, by large numbers – name your favourite genocide that went ignored.
NB:
do not suggest folk for termination – it’ll count as incitement to hate crimes or something & I’ll just
remove it or the group’ll be shut down.
If your
bile’s unswallowable, you can direct it at me – sticks & stones.
FIRST POST: Die 4 Life
OK. I get to go first.
Obviously, I’m first against the wall. On a count of terrible hypocrisy having just prescribed TRIAGE ‘Treatment of Rampant Individualism Against Global Extinction’ for the planet, in 3 doses (TerraRise, PsycheSomatic, I-Mage) and now pursuing Bifurcated Individualism in an extreme form (notoriety if not celebrity). Not to mention,
those 4.8 Earthsworth I (x6billion) am using.
My choices are:
1)
1 of my 150 – 150, that’s a laugh for a natural hermit. Let’s say 1 of the 150 faces I’d
say hello to.
Well, it’d
have to be the offsprung. It’s not just nepotism (technically, filialism) as it’s a genius gorgeous geek (others
can corroborate), providing brains, beauty, dreadlocked skills and heaps of potential for the future.
2) 1 world-shaker – Stuart Kauffman
If you don’t know
who that is, start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Kauffman
but until you read the
books listed in that bibliography (I recommend in chronological order because the concepts are developed sequentially &
it helps to have one autocatalysing set pinned down in the soup of genius sprouting around you.)
Why? One of the broadest
and most rigorous and creative minds in science. He’d be able to spearhead the assault on the next mountain range in
our new fitness landscape, narrowing our search for the optimum adjacent possible, and reverencing the planetary ecosystem
in his definition of our new equilibrium.
3)Termination
If you’ve
read my novels you might find it surprising that I’ve never taken LSD. The reason being that I’m not planetbound
at the best of times, and I’ve had responsibilities that required me to come back as a functional, citizen-camouflaged,
virtual human being. So for terminal illnesses, mine or the planet’s, my plan has always been to take the ultimate trip
– and if I’m lucky and wrong about the lack of afterlife, I’ll be very surprised by flashbacks.
