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I. Wallerstein speaks of the next 25 to 50 years as a critical juncture in the history of human society. That we are at the end of a world historical system that began 500 years ago. That capitalism is in terminal crisis because it can no longer externalize the true costs of its operations.
Everywhere, both people and the environment are rejecting the program.
Peak oil, ecological devastation, population pressures, social and psychological exhaustion / repulsion are all converging on the system concurrently and as there is no square inch left on earth that has not been mapped, charted cataloged, inventoried and analyzed, there is simply no place left to go.
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April 9, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Anonymous
I couldn’t follow who said what. I would throw out a challenge though. If you believe someone could benefit from your world view, make it available.
See Neil Turok on TED.
April 9, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Anonymous
Is that a challengeto me, or a general challenge ?
My personal world view is reasonably pessimistic. I believe that 99% (well, maybe 98%) of the world’s 6-billion plus people want nothing more than to live adequately, be peaceful and cooperative, enjoy helping others and being engaged in socially constructive initiatives, and so on, but must try to do so in a structure of systems that have enured to the benefit of a small group of people who sit at / on the top of the current structured systems, and that incremental change won’t get us to where (arguably) we may need to be.
And most accepted large-scale change theory would suggest that solid substantive deep change won’t happen until instantiated by major crisis.
This may also be interesting for you to look at …
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/04/03.html#a2134