Comments klatu has made

Addressing global warming.........

I came away from the film, 'An inconvenient truth' with rather mixed feelings. While particularly strong on illustrating the damage we have done and the dangers which we may now be about to reap for that excess, I feel the film was most disingenuous about the price of solutions.

The existing status quo, institutionally holds in place the predominant values expressed by any culture or society. Those values have not changed  over the centuries. Accumulated wealth remains the  primary measure of success in our world.

That dominant materialist perception defines the ethical conception, via law, of our history, which continues leading us towards the environmental abyss and worse!        

Whatever progress we may feel ours or any  particular culture has made, without sustainability, the whole enlightenment project, that is, the developement of spiritual, ethical and material rationalism, with a view to progress is a political-culture failure!

On this basis it is necessary to question the possible limits of natural reason and human nature  itself and where those limits have lead us to self deception and illusion.

I am not questioning anyones sincere aspirations to save the planet, but like ending war, that other great moral/political failure, what we are able to dream is not always what we have the ability to accomplish. Why have we, as human beings, been unable to integrate such a sustainable ethical conception within our evolution?

So where are the intellectual road blocks that would prevent us asking the harder questions and seeking out new solutions that might speak to the whole of humanity?

Human aspirations beyond the political have historically been the preserve of 'religion' but their 'hope' has now proved a dead end. With humanity caught between the proverbial and environmental rock and a hard place is their anyplace else to go?

Well that's a good question, but one that may now in fact have a answer and a very big one at that,  and just in time. Anyone interested in pioneering the search for a new, practical ethical/spiritual conception, one where ethics defines the material, that might be a potent catalyst for change globally, may want to check out a couple links:

http://www.energon.uklinux.net
    http://thefinalfreedoms.bulldoghome.com    

'Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created' A. Einstein