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By David Bryson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

September 13, 2012<\/p>\n

At the ending of his important new book, \u201cThe Social Conquest of Earth<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson writes: \u201cEarth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings, or at least the strong beginnings of one.\u00a0 We will do a lot more damage to ourselves and the rest of life along the way, but out of an ethic of simple decency to one another, the unrelenting application of reason, an acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an optimistic perspective, and optimism is better for psychological health and the external world.\u00a0 This column reveals my pessimism about the world situation.\u00a0 For Professor Wilson, the\u00a0 glass is half full, for me, half empty. The daily headlines depict humanity going to hell in a hundred hand baskets. \u00a0 The optimism of Wilson would require a global revolution in values and consciousness, which I think is very unlikely.\u00a0 Cultural fragmentation and anger are both increasing. The nomenclatura of elected officials and non-elected dictators are not taking any meaningful steps to improve anything except their hold on power.<\/p>\n

Look at the record heat in the summers of 2011 and 2012. Look at the melting arctic ice, which is now melting faster than worst-case projections of five years ago.\u00a0 The Keeling Curve<\/a> is a graph of atmospheric Co2 measured on a mountain in Hawaii. It has risen steadily, every single year, for the last 50 years.\u00a0 If there were such a person as \u201cphysician to the planet,\u201d that person would blow the whistle and declare an acute emergency regarding the sweating and feverish patient.\u00a0 Global heating is only one of a group of indicators (such as acidification of the oceans, loss of soil, global supply and distribution of food and water), which are getting worse.<\/p>\n

Look at the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d\u00a0in Mexico: Tens of thousands of deaths, massive corruption, and guns galore.\u00a0 It would be hard to design a bigger failure.\u00a0 But to admit that this is not working, that things are getting worse rather than better,\u00a0would be to suggest that what those in power did last year and the years before was stupid and lethal.\u00a0 Better to pretend that the war on drugs is on track.<\/p>\n

Forty years ago the White House kept saying the Vietnam war was on track;\u00a0ten years ago the same in Iraq.\u00a0 Whether it is conscious lying or pervasive self-delusion, the bosses of these wars have a zero grip on reality.<\/p>\n

Look at the war in Afghanistan:\u00a0 Instead of a war on drugs, Afghanistan is war and<\/em> drugs.\u00a0 Military activity and opium production are the two giant cash flows.\u00a0 More soldiers are now being killed by supposedly friendly Afghan troops than by the enemy.\u00a0 This is crazy.\u00a0 Never in the history of warfare has such an absurd situation taken place.<\/p>\n

Coming in second in absurdity was the first Gulf War in 1990 when more US soldiers were killed in preparation for the war than in the war itself.\u00a0 No one in power takes note of these ridiculous facts.<\/p>\n

A major portion of my pessimism comes from the toxic influence of the military mind, whether in the DEA or DOD, dividing the world into good guys and bad guys.<\/p>\n

One consolation is knowing humanity cannot exist forever on planet Earth.\u00a0 The death of the sun will end all life in this biosphere.\u00a0 Something catastrophic may occur much sooner.<\/p>\n

There have been about 250 generations since civilization started.\u00a0 It is difficult for me to have empathy more than a few generations into the future, say to the time of my grandchildren\u2019s grandchildren.\u00a0 But human suffering is now at an all time high \u2013 because of the huge population increase.\u00a0 If many human deaths occur in a crisis, aggregate human suffering will decrease. The Buddha said life is suffering.\u00a0\u00a0The more human life, the more suffering.<\/p>\n

This attitude reminds me of E.M. Cioran, the author of \u201cThe Heights of Despair<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Trouble with Being Born<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 A humorous take on global pessimism is in the great Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s novel Galapagos.\u00a0 He reasons humanity is such a can of worms because our brains became so big.\u00a0 By a miracle of evolution, human brains get smaller, we become aquatic dolphin-like creatures, and we develop flippers instead of hands.\u00a0\u00a0 All is peaceful and stable.<\/p>\n

I completely agree with Vonnegut\u2019s science fictional suggestion that we would be better off if our brains had not become so big.\u00a0 It was our big brains that enabled our escape from the Darwinian natural world.<\/p>\n

There was a burst of optimism a year ago with the Occupy Wall Street movement.\u00a0 My column at Fog City Journal suggested a real planetary revolution in consciousness<\/a>. But even though Occupy had real legs with traction, and seemed to be built to last and growing fast in many cities worldwide, it was no match for the status quo establishment.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m calling myself a Planetary Pessimist. Please email me<\/a> if you would like to talk about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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