There’s really nothin’ else to say I, I can’t explain it

“There’s no mountain I can’t climb, there’s no tower too high, no plane that I can’t learn how to fly. What do I gotta do to get through to you, to show you there ain’t nothing I can’t take this chainsaw to.” — Eminem –

Uh.

I think I shall have to learn how to be more ignorant of all the ill-smelling things I’ve seen on the other side of that proverbial mountain, from on top of which I could see our entire future heating up and turning into eternal fire. The development needs to be stopped. We can’t allow ourselves to turn the whole world into a giant gas chamber, can we?! — Uh. Sure we can.

Now, I don’t know what I got to do to get through to you, good people. Although I think, sometimes, that in my own special way this is exactly what I’ve managed to do. It’s only that in order to speak or write about the unspeakable, you need to be a dumb ass like me: one who is quite ready to climb every mountain in order to warn people of the troubles that lie upfront here, in terms of future times. Not like tomorrow. But ten, twenty, forty, eighty, one-hundred-and-sixty years from now. But starting today. As we all know the climate systems of this planet has seriously started to go crazy. This is just the beginning, I’m afraid. And that is why I’m dead to the world, I suppose. Oh yes: I think this must be the reason why the flame in me simply had to be extinguished by the health and social services authorities of this hateful state. Love is what I can’t have. I can have all the hate in this world, it comes free on delivery, but the idea of a loving relationship is truly dead to me. I can’t be anything less than true to myself. That’s the terms of the curse that once was cast upon me, I guess, while I’m feeling left with no other option than arriving at the conclusion that the devil won. – As always, I might add?

It’s the price I have to pay for being so good as telling a version of the truth that could be emulated by Al Gore. It’s only that I’m a nobody with no job and no position in society. And when I provide the stupid answers to the question of what to do about the crisis, my answers turn out to be insensitive to the requirements of the business world, and naïve in every way. I say we need a wholesale reduction of consumption, and that we also need to do everything in our powers to protect the rainforests. This is just too little too late, I suppose, and now that everything seems to be going down the drains anyway, I guess I have become a person whose only position in the society of humans is, quite naturally, that of an outcast.

Now, while the rest of the human species seems to be lost in traffic, me, I’m lost in time. — I remember, all too well, back in 2004 and 2005 I used to believe that big changes were afoot, and that we’d all at some point be obsessed with rewriting history to make it suited for a low carbon future in which the needs of the planet’s biosphere would be in the limelight, and that everything would start to change. I thought the human species was bound to move away from the basics of the present civilization: endless growth and fossil-fuels addiction. Now, to the contrary, it seems to me like the proponents of business-as-usual and status quo have actually got it their way. It’s a very small percentage of the world population controlling every mass media outlet of this world, every financial, industrial and military institution of the world. The flow of information belongs to the rich and the powerful. Those people (or that strata of the population) who have taken it upon themselves to be the controllers of the weapons of mass destruction belonging to the nation states: an enormous lot of nuclear and conventional warheads, and an equally enormous lot of battleships, tanks, bombers, jets, and computerized rocket launchers. Hell, these people, who control an enormous lot of surveillance equipment as well, are openly planning to build a satelite controlled rocket shield in Eastern Europe. There is no end to all the metallic, military logic of the happy few. And while the planet is about to crumble under the strains involved in offering some kind of living space for billions of travellers and joy riders, the interest of every goddamn nation state of this planet takes preference before any other interest; barred, possibly, from the mighty interest of all these multinational corporations whose powers are completely out of bounds.

If humanity was supposed to start taking care of this planet, much rather than destroying it any further, it is my strong belief that human beings be allowed to claim planetary identity. As the internet revolution is gaining speed, it is should become easier and easier to making way for such an arrangement. I’m sorry to say this, and it makes me an enemy of the state, but all the nation states of this planet should start by getting in line under a planetary council which worked to facilitating for ecosystems preservation. And then, in the next phase, they should all just crumble and die. — I mean: take a look at any political map of this planet, and understand that I just can’t stand any of them. The nation state stands for me as the main distraction available to us, as at least some of us are trying to make sense of what might be the ideal reaction on the part of the human species, as the fact that the climate systems are going amok is becoming clearer and clearer. The nation states are stood right between nature itself and all possible groups of humans and it’s such a fucking pity it makes me want to puke. People should be allowed to think globally and act locally, but as a matter of fact what’s happening is the opposite. All these multinational corporations with head offices in the City of London and New York City, Berlin, Oslo, Zürich, Paris, Athens, and Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and Tokyo think locally (controlling the policy making of nation states) and act globally. It is true. We are talking about globalization here, and all corporations are geared at always being fit for financial fights, market battles and economic warfare on a global scale, while on a local level, but never too far away from the satelite phone, the chief executives, lawyers, bargainists, orators, and important guests enjoy their cocktail parties in the modelled gardens or luxury yachts of theirs.

As I said: the human species should be allowed to develop planetary identities. I think this would be the most important feature necessary in order to start to deal with problems that by definition take place on a global scale. It is easy to think that human beings should reconnect with Mother Nature, but it is as good as impossible so long as nation states and financial and industrial corporations are allowed to call all the shots. And I have absolutely no reason to believe that a development away from the corporate and national rule is going to start taking place anytime soon.

Meanwhile — and probably for eternity — I’ll be stuck inside a black hole here, like a limbo, lost in time. Fearing for the future while loathing the past. I think this is going to become a feeling that is much more “normal” as the years go by and nothing much is happening in terms of climate change action and other forms of environmental restructuring. A creepy feeling.