My Personal NTHE Timeline Accelerates

I posted this comment over in the Sanctioned Suicide sub-reddit, it ended up rather long winded and I felt it was suitable blog-post entry:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SanctionedSuicide/comments/4ws7gq/what_do_you_think_a_lot_of_societys_problems_stem/

What do you think a lot of society's problems stem from?

Tribal consciousness combined with unimaginably powerful technology.

Let me elaborate:

1.Short term thinking

2.Greater amount of time spent in a fearful state, of a heightened sense of insecurity.

3.Excessive materialism, relating directly with 2, this is exacerbated when we seek to fulfill our sense of security through materialism to include fulfilling ones perceived sense of ranking among peers, acceptance of those within the tribal order and the acquisition of a mate.

This kind of consciousness results in the need to over-consume the natural world and develop unjust socio-economic relationships. Invariably, multiple tribes begin to encroach on contested land and conflict ensues with usually the most technologically advanced as victors (Guns, Germs and Steel; Jared Diamond) necessitating the need for the development of a highly stratified, hierarchical order where a certain percentage of the society can be freed from tribal living requirements and allocated to the task of inventing new technologies requisite for the transition from a tribe to an Empire. The eventual transformation from a tribe to an Empire can never jettison what would by then be considered the completely anachronistic and even barbaric institutions, slavery and outmoded organized religion (such as has been thoroughly refuted by Science) for these institutions are the bedrock of the Empire in question. For example in the U.S, Corporate Personhood and the level of economic inequality, now even having surpassed that of the Gilded Age, although completely mystifying any good natured, sensible person of a developed level of consciousness seem to be unquestioned truths (although the Occupy Wall Street, Zeitgeist and even Anonymous movements have seriously challenged as of recent).

To briefly sum up, all of our problems and their manifestation here as a veritable living hell world for the majority of it's inhabitants on a planet capable of much greater spiritual cohesion, coherence (Human and Mind, Human and Nature, Human and Technology, Human and Human) are rooted directly in Fear / Fear Based Consciousness.

Fear served us relatively well when the world was far more inhospitable but at this critical juncture our continued survival depends on our active participation in evolving our consciousness. Time is relative, we can, with pure intent and effort, greatly accelerate our psycho-spiritual evolution.

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” - EO Wilson

I'm afraid if we do not do so and do so in time we will not survive the mounting, converging crises currently placed at our doorstep (Anthropogenic Climate Chaos, Biodiversity Loss, 400 Ticking Nuclear Time-Bombs, nearly all of whom sitting on geological fault lines, a global socio-economic order with Slavery, Eco-cide and Genocide as it's pre-requisites).

Anyone whose taken an Astronomy course in the past 30 years is likely familiar with Drakes Equation, wherein one of the factors of the Equation is the possibility of a civilization capable of IR spectrum communication (light and radio) succumbing to the unwanted effects accompanying unsustainable "development" (turning the Amazon rain forest into a Wall Mart parking lot is not development unless the end goal of the organizing principle in question is to develop a living planet into the Death Star) before said IR communication reaches an audience.

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=8130

We are either witnessing the death of an organism that failed to consciously evolve from a collective fear based paradigm and consciousness to one of greater inclusiveness, empathy and compassion or it's painful birth-pangs.

I am currently in this sub-reddit because I am at a dead-end with this life. My 1987 Volvo station-wagon that I live out of in San Francisco, as a homeless veteran, decided to give up the ghost today and I fear this may be either the start of something exciting or the end of this life experience by way of self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head.

That's where I am personally on the Empire Failure / Collapse of Industrial Civilization / NTHE time-line.

It's interesting to point out that while I have a two year degree, am a veteran having seen combat and separated honorably am forced to live in my 1987 Volvo whose only choice of work are minimum wage wage-slave jobs that truly, in every way, approximate slavery in a city renowned for it's affluence.

I can see the shrewd logic behind the $13 an hour wage in a city whose median apartment cost is $3500., the rich always need more money and will go at any length to get it, including medicating the supporting population in question with Sodium Fluoride coupled with an education system designed to produce obedient factory workers who respond reliably, in a Pavlovian manner, to various stimuli placed in the environment, to include the ringing of a bell signalling the time for them to take a break of move to the next job task.

http://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-divergence-between-productivity-and-a-typical-workers-pay-why-it-matters-and-why-its-real/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2zLt-tdf1M

I ran across an article recently that put the inequality in the SF Bay area between Rwanda and Guatemala.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/05/san-francisco-income-inequality-developing-nations

Here's some good information on NTHE, the science is constantly evolving as new feedbacks are discovered and added to the approximate 30 or so there are already, including the Methane-Clathrate "Gun". Last I checked, the revised consensus is that we have until 2026 until NTHE, precipitated by drought induced crop failure, begins in earnest:

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37116-are-we-looking-at-a-mass-extinction-event

http://guymcpherson.com/2013/04/the-irreconcilable-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/

Our problems will remain intractable and we will head down the path of NTHE barring some form of meta-physical Jungian rapid shift in consciousness.

Based on how I've seen Humanity respond to our problems in the past decade, from 2006 until now, I don't place a lot of faith in us changing any time soon. The super wealthy, whose hands are the only ones on the levers, have become completely detached from reality, many of whom already were religious fundamentalists to begin with who truly believe in "Jesus descending from the clouds to save the good white Christians".

We're fucked. I will probably be gone in a few weeks, as will everyone reading this at some point in time.