Max

I happen to be extremely liberal and I am happy that I live in a country where I will not be prosecuted for my beliefs (I may be wrong of course...) Politically I am an extreme leftist. In fact, I am so left that my beliefs often make a full circle and overlap onto some aspects of extreme right. For example, I am very much pro-gun. I just think that citizens that own weapons are better protected from oppressive governments than citizens who don’t, and I do not understand why liberal left is traditionally so anti-gun. One would think they would be pro gun to help protect themselves against extreme right. If Jews in 1930s Germany were well armed, the history of 20th century could have been quite different. However I do not believe in violent revolutions and in violence in general. I believe in the intelligence of “the human being,” but also in the complete stupidity of the people as a group, and that the more people there are - the easier they are to control. My belief is that the modern society is overall better than many societies of the past; however, the path humanity chose to follow thousands of years ago when it chose agriculture over hunting-and-gathering is a dead-end that will cause the complete collapse of the modern society upon itself. Humanity became an unnatural phenomenon, a cancerous tumor, if you wish. The industrial civilization, we are a part of, is destroying the Earth and is destroying itself. The collapse of this civilization is eminent and unavoidable. In fact, I believe that this collapse should be welcomed as it is the only way for the humanity to go back to the situation it faced thousands of years ago and hopefully make a better choice this time around. I believe that Earth is a living breathing organism and I believe that it can survive the cancerous tumor of humanity, I believe that Global Warming we experience is a natural reaction of this planets immune system to alien organisms we have become. To me the Global Warming is a planetary equivalent of physiological fever, fever that is signifies the presence of a disease, but that is also a natural reaction of this planet, ultimately, though indirectly, aimed at destroying as many of us as possible. And it’s a good thing really. The Earth will survive and it will recover. And if ecological catastrophe doesn’t kill us, then complete economical collapse that will follow should finish the job. If no more than 1% of us survive, we have a very good shot at building a wonderful, liberal, and peaceful society that can once again become a healthy part of Earth ecosystem. That is if ANY of us survive the mess we got ourselves into, of course. The logical question is – if I don’t believe that this civilization can be changed for the better, then why do I get involved in ecological and liberal activism? I have asked myself this question many times around and the answers I came up with are: 1) I simply cannot be indifferent when something that is preposterously wrong is done to this civilization, and even more importantly – this planet. 2) Slight hope that maybe things can actually be improved in a more subtle way than global ecological-economical apocalypse. ...and finally: 3) If I don’t do anything to help this civilization and this planet then I am no different than those I criticize. And when the excrements of this civilization will finally hit the righteous fan of global apocalypse, I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent this... This thought will at least make me feel better as I die horribly in the hands of post-apocalyptic mutants.