Us against them.
It’s scarcity again:
the one, critical ignorance
that may do us in.
The fear-based scrabble
for oil, coltan or diamonds,
wherein homeboy heroes
unleash laser-guided,
indiscriminate death
from air-conditioned cockpits
to secure special advantage
for corporate paymasters
paying token taxes.
The days of permitted ignorance
come to an end now.
Wake up! the universe screams:
icecaps are melting and
hurricanes a coming,
trade towers collapsing
and schoolboys shootin’ classmates.
Torture is public policy.
Crude radiological bombs
and economic collapse loom
like terrifying banshees
in the desperate darkness.
After thousands of years
comes now our darkest hour,
our defining moment,
for we must choose now.
The core integrity of humanity
is called to question as
we must now realize
Human knowledge only now has the power
to durably, safely and sustainably
eliminate scarcity of essential resources…
for the first time and forever.
We have engineering proof,
facts on the ground,
and only a genuine,
collective commitment
of all for all
will lead us
to a sane and stable world.
Wake up! or perish.
Fail to act…
continue the desperate momentum
of competition for resources
and we’ll destroy not just our dignity,
not just our illusion of moral integrity,
but our very lives.
Wake up! or perish.
Us against them don’t never win.
Mike Nuess authored General Plenty - Always and Only the Path to Peace, a 375 page novel (historical fiction) about Humanity's current position and course, and the pragmatic, science-based triumph of the human spirit that is now both possible and necessary. West by Northwest Online Magazine said General Plenty was "Probably one of the best books ever written or read on the political and human task of achieving peace and prosperity." He grew up traveling, the son of a military officer, graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University in Washington State, settled in the mountains nearby and built the Geodesic Bioship a dwelling system designed to utilize sun energy income to sustainably meet the metabolic needs of its human occupants. His technical experience spans the fields of psychology, education & training, building science, energy-efficient buildings, and environmental design. He taught code officials, builders, teachers and homeowners how to design and build energy-efficient homes with superior indoor air quality. He built prototype homes, winning a couple of National awards for energy and indoor air quality, and published technical papers for conferences and for magazines like Fine Homebuilding and Popular Science. He traveled to Europe, Japan, Central America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, finding intelligent, compassionate and capable people everywhere. His study of Humanity's evolving know how, of power and human social systems, his technical experience with efficiency and renewables—components of what Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science—led naturally to the book General Plenty. He visited Nicaragua in the fall of 2005 and wrote of the conditions there in Z Magazine.
ZNetwork is funded solely through the generosity of its readers.
Donate
