- The end of the line
If we only consider things from the polarised view of entrenched thinking, we can only see in two dimensions. Binary thinking cannot help resolve the misdirected situation we have got ourselves into.
If, for example, we only try to address poverty through wealth creation, this is really providing more market fodder; just feeding the machine.
New perspectives around quality of life, self-sustenance and genuine sustainability are needed. But we know that already; it is little more than wheeling out tired platitudes.
How can we re-configure, to use aspects of current practices to achieve positive synergy rather than spiralling downwards with depleting finite resources?
After thousands of years of civilisation is money worship, leisure shopping and celebrity reverence really the best that we can do?
Love the death ray! But it looks like an alien death ray, so is the alien killing the alien? I imagine you also consided death by stoning, or perhaps drawn and quartering, as potentially more traditional local means of rejecting foreign devils. And what of that great, slow-burning classic: death by neighbourly annoyance, ie: years (or decades) of pettiness, bad-mouthing, stealing tomatoes and dumping garbage on your side.
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