Likely to be a mess

Steven Welzer
1 min readJan 15, 2021

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Please. The idea that “we” (please … the eight billion of us can’t really act as a coherent anything) the idea that we could do it right is just beyond consideration.

Consider: Recognition of what went wrong (who could even consider that we might have gone wrong) and then “deciding” (a global referendum!) to un-do (all that progress! our sanctified medical technology!) to give up dreams (chimeras) of abundance, leisure, and security. Just over the horizon, just around the corner, all the stress will peal away.

Let go. That may be the thing human beings find absolutely hardest to do. Let go of ego, of aggrandizement, of illusions. And, like the animals, just be. The animals are not going anywhere, they are just being here and now.

Let go of needing to know. The animals don’t even contemplate the Mystery. We’re consigned to contemplating, ok, but then don’t do. Let the Mystery be. Try not to try too hard.

Here’s what to try to do (so simple, so straightforward): Make it a priority of the Biden administration … to guide the withering of the Leviathan via a constructive process of devolution by implementing a green eco-socialist program informed by an ultimately bioregionalist perspective.

https://cascadiabioregion.org/what-is-bioregionalism

https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/mother-of-all-an-introduction-to-bioregionalism/

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Yeah.

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Most likely it will be a slow and aggravating mess of a breakdown.

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Steven Welzer
Steven Welzer

Written by Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.

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