Y'know, like a hockey referee. Complete with video replay appeals. Recognizing that the only true revolution is personal, I have grave doubts about these kinds of things. On the other hand we are at the crossroads where critical mass meets decompressive trigger, the only real question being whether our souls are for sale. The power-hungry elites are vastly helped by technology to gain and keep power, without addressing the real problems of their societies.
Populations multiply while the environment is gradually destroyed.
Military technology develops more and more lethal weapons, which are then freely distributed to fuel future conflicts. The argument that western countries with their wealth and relatively low birth rate do not fuel the population crisis is, of course, fallacious. France, as national policy, urges its citizens to procreate, giving lots of subsidies and perks to those French who make more French. The US population is growing faster than that of eighteen other industrialized nations and, in terms of energy consumption, when an American couple stops spawning at two babies, it's the same as an average East Indian couple stopping at sixty-six, or an Ethiopian couple drawing the line at one thousand. Feb 2001 is a wonderfully enlightening essay by Michael Hoffman - cynical enough to warrant confidence, sufficiently lightsome to pass on composed samadhi.