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We are at a critical juncture in our species development. Not only are our technical abilities outstripping our planets ability to sustain them, but the very fabric of our social and cultural identities is ripping. The empires of the old order are tearing themselves apart and the new order is largely one of commonwealths of exclusion. Common wealth is the last order of business on the agenda of these abstractions masquerading as political compromises. The primary business is the consolidation of power. This power is not one of creation, of intelligence, ordered, but comes as the unravelled explication of the dark; disorder. In such a state of unresolved dichotomy social man is the propogator of division and common concensus the tyranny of the mass. This is in stark contrast to the potential of social man which is realized in friendship, and consummated in community. Thus, collectively, the potential of cultural man is realized in inspiration, and consummated in diversity. Diversity is rapidly devolving to mediocrity, and community has largely evaporated into like-minded interest groups. The transsocial and transcultural nature of the information network will eventually render the locally, individually relevant reality subservient to the common prescribed understanding. This has already occured to a significant extent. The virtual reality thus created has its political and economic uses in the maintenance of a centralized enforced order, but is utterly impotent in the maintenance of an integrated order. Disorder, disintegration, is the most utterly controllable phenomenon; and this ability is only limited by intent. Those events, buses and bridges, high-ways and by-ways, infrastructure with All implied, that so inspire our cultural self-love are but creative attempts to come to terms with Time. Those involved in the study of ecology, the most generalist of the specialties, understand well that the health of a species is determined from the bottom up. It is the comprised health of the individuals that is vital; not population counts. If the individuals that comprise the species are out of order then the species is also, regardless of obsessive ideology (or ability to populate). In fact the only effect of adopting ideologies is to propogate the neurotic control (or populative) obsession. I cannot through the fog of preconception truly see my neighbours' suffering, much less touch the nature of my own; and so any honorable intentions I may have are forced, and thus false. My unconciously fallacious social intercourse is at root separative. This is the antithesis of communication. While I believe I am fulfilling my social need, I am at a wholly other level supporting the devaluation of this person. And most probably she, me. I modify this devaluation according to the whim of temperment or weight of condition; but maintain it I must. The cost of its' loss, that of identity itself, is perceptably too high. I carry this demeanor into all the facets of my existance, and thus am a purveyer of separation, accrual, and control. I am not only the victim, but the culprit; independant of any purist ideologies I may pursue. The distribution of wealth becomes more inordinate; and my righteous indignation of the horrors this creates completes the hypocritical cycle  next page |