Dump Western "Civilization"
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 09/08/2021

If we don't dump the death cult that is Western "civilization", we are doomed as a species.

We are all profoundly unhappy and a growing minority of us are clinically mentally ill. This astounding outcome of human history can be traced back to four pernicious wrong turns: agriculture, urbanization, growth orientation, and the adversarial organizational principle.

Agricultural was the harbinger and antecedent of the rape of Earth (think ploughing). Using sheer muscle power, Man harnessed natural resources unsustainably.

Climate change is a direct consequence of agriculture.

Agriculture created surplus produce and freed the majority of the population from hitherto communal hunting and gathering. It gave rise to an addiction to economic growth as an overriding value - and consumerism and economics as its ethos-inculcating tools.

Agriculture also led to the emergence of the patriarchy, slavery, and cities - three unnatural arrangements with grave social and psychological outcomes.

Finally, as a species we had opted for conflict rather than harmony and justice. We conjured up adversarial, combative systems and conflict-based science to back them up (think evolution or free market economics).

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