And they call it utopianism to oppose it. This inevitability factor has had until now the desired effect, which is to get most people to not even think about it or oppose it and instead to simply try and find some kind of survival niche within it. But this issue of inevitability needs to be challenged. Acceptance, Mander said, produces passivity. But if we decided, within the remnants of our democratic society, that we would rather not proceed in this direction, it becomes less inevitable than it was the minute before.
Options begin to appear.
That is step one. It is a system thought up by human beings, an experiment, a creation of corporate people and economists that benefits them but destroys communities and democracy. It has structures, ruling bodies, political and economic powers. These can all be changed if we get our heads out of the inevitability box. For step three, getting something done, Mander cited the example of Canada, where MAI is widely discussed.