As I see it the Pagan movements, in all areas of politics, are drawn between two different future visions; the return to a life in harmony with nature and the revolutionized and improved high tech civilisation. We can argue well for both of these visions.
Today I am going to argue for the return to a life in harmony with nature. Not because I think this is the only solution, but because I think it deserves our attention.
As I see it pretty much everything is wrong with today’s society. From grand politics to the tiny details in the everyday life. Just about everything is destructive, if not in the short run then at least in the long run. We literally shit in our drinking water. We pollute the soil we grow our food in and the air we breath in, the water we drink and not least out minds too. We do so only because our rulers want to make even more money and because we are unwilling to give up this easy, and apparently comfortable lifestyle, made by and for lazy sub-humans. The modern lifestyle is so destructive that we need to spend enormeous sums on healthcare too, because our species is suffering so much from its many deficiencies, and this in turn forces us to deplete even more resources, pollute even more and turn our species even more degenerated, unhealthy, twisted, depraved, sick and in need of medical care.
This death-trap is profitable to the tiny elite ruling our world, so it is maintained. The ship is heading for the abyss, but as long as it is still a profitable trip the captain will keep pretending everything is normal and that everything will be fine. He cares not about the fate of his passengers or his ship. He only cares about profit. He too will die as the ship falls into the abyss, but his hunger for gold has blinded him and he can no longer see. He will go down with the rest of us, holding all our gold in his hands.
Some talk about leaving this planet, some time in the future at least, and go look for somewhere else to live – out there. Because of this they argue strongly for a continuation of the high tech track we are already on. Well, sorry to disappoint you but this is probably not possible. Man can not survive in space because of extreme radiation. It is like a microwave out there, and no man can go there. We can probably not even go beyond the Van Allen radiation belt. To visit even Mars you need space ships with several meter thick lead walls for the crew to survive. The further out you go, the more radiation there is. So at least for this post let us pretend we are stuck here, on our planet. There is no way for us to physically leave. Ever.
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The future of mankind today, if we continue on the same track, is almost for sure nothing but chaos, crime out of control, global war, famine, natural disasters and a horrible detoriation in general health and life quality – and eventually self-induced mass-death and to many races even extinction. Nature will eventually reclaim what we took from her, and mankind will be reduced to small tribes surviving in isolated pockets for ages. E. g. Neanderthals in Europe. Denisovans in Asia and Homo Sapiens in Africa. Technology will become synonymous with death and destruction, and the collapse in tech production in combination with this anti-technology world view will return mankind to a Stone Age. Anyone not conservative enough to accept this new way of thinking and living will be executed – possibly for «blasphemy». They will be seen as too dangerous to be left alive.
In order to make the survivors forget about the horribly destructive technology the sages will present their propaganda in a very colourful way, using metaphors and low-tech or no-tech realities to make their listeners understand. Their stories will be known as mythology.
Perhaps with time, e. g. after 300,000 years, the Neanderthals, who were responsible for the high tech and even low tech inventions in the first place, will slowly start to re-discover what their distant forebears knew, but if they do it will take a very long time, and until then they will live in harmony with nature, and be happy, strong and wise.
Maybe, because of the absence of metals and electricity, some of the sorcerous abilities we often dream of or imagine our forebears being in possession of, will rise to the surface (again?) here in Neanderthal Europe, and help keep the status quo. After all; if you have sorcery, who needs technology?
So am I talking about the future here, or actually the past? Or both? You tell me… HailaR WôðanaR!
