responsibility, but

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rfk-jr-vaccine-disinformation/

I do understand. We can’t and won’t give up industrialism, science, technology, etc. We can’t and won’t give up vaccines. Etc.

In a certain sense, from where we are now … from where we find ourselves after millennia of “development” … with a population of 8 billion, with systems in place that feed megalopolis cities that don’t grow food (etc.) it’s callous, it would be irresponsible to advocate tearing it all down, in the way that, like, Derrick Jensen seems to (or: used to seem to … has he mellowed a little recently?).

No, we can’t tear it all down. Given our present lifeways (congested, hyper-mobile) vaccines are a public health boon. The medical establishment hates that an RFK, Jr. might put countervailing ideas into people’s heads.

But the zeitgeist is starting to trend in a certain — understandable — direction. Progressive development has been so disappointing. Thoughts start occurring: How ever did humanity thrive prior to All Of This … prior to agricultural toil, technological development, social complexification, medicine, Big Pharma?? Is it really all so necessary? Ought we to countenance a degree of devolution from our perch of Peak Everything??

And so the sympathetic hearing for the critics of All Of This.

Irresponsible without an appreciation for the fact that devolution would be disastrous if not done with great sensitivity and incrementalism.

It’s not likely humanity will embrace a conscious and deliberate program to start going in a radically alternative direction. It’s likely that the devolution will be forced upon us.

What we’re starting to see in our time (“new age”) are intimations of wonderings and re-thinkings: How ever did things get to this point of crisis and chagrin?