Friday, January 11, 2013

The Answer

The postmodern condition, said by some to have arrived in the 1960s, has transcended us from the dualist-rationalist combats of modernism into a confusion of deracinated fragmentation ("pixelation"?), but a further transcending presents itself-- the Age of Ecology, which can be said to have officially arrived on April 22,1970-- Earth Day One.  In the Age of Ecology, ecology becomes the organizing principle.  No longer split dualism or polymorphous confusion, but simplicity, clarity, reality.  The criterion is "Is it ecological?"  People who see and think clearly know that this is the only hope for survival.  Everything else is catastrophic delusion and villainy.  It really is this simple-- ecology as the gravitational center of culture that like the Sun pulls all the bodies into orderly motion together.  The religious, the philosophical, the scholarly, the scientific, the economic, the political, the cultural-- everything falls within the dire survival mandate for ecologicality.  Ecology is the Answer, the Genius of the New World yet to manifest.  Will we make it so, or will the World go down with us as we engineer our doom?

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