A latest study warns that we have surpassed 7 of the 9 biophysical thresholds that allow the stability of ecosystems on earth, those that provide optimal living conditions for all living beings that inhabit Gaia.
While we destroy the current state of the most magical and wonderful thing we can observe and feel, our society, part of a system guilty of anthropogenic climate change that will plunge 1/3 of the population into extreme living conditions and will contribute to produce the sixth Great Extinction, is unable to understand and materialize in a calm but radical reflection that lives in a destructive delirium of which they are not even active subjects of decision.
The task is becoming more and more complicated. Climate change worsens while surveillance capitalism succumbs society to constant distraction through the enslavement of attention in order to capitalize on its non-life time.
Santiago Alba Rico mentioned in a conference that the biggest digital archive humanity leaves for the future are selfies and pornography. It is the perfect summary of a Western society that is individualistic, narcissistic and addicted to dehumanized pleasure through a screen that does not let us see that no matter how many filters we put on it, the reality of the ecological disaster is greater than what we can imagine.
Our disconnection with social relations and nature is an advance in the improvement of a system that manages us through our cell phones and social networks, standardizing our thoughts, our ideology and our priorities and capitalizing on our technological addiction to continue selling us a consumer reality that ignores that out there the world is burning.
Lake Nicholls, Mt Field.
Tasmania
