logicp_writings/Book/sustain_yourself.md

Sustain Yourself

Intro

In some respects, the implications set forth by sustainable development is the suggestion that it's increasingly difficult for you to sustain yourself. Society will have fewer guarantees about sustaining you, and will instead focus efforts on being able to sustain some part of itself in the future. Your participation is less important than it once was, as it will be better able to continue without you.

Questions

Do you need to sustain yourself? Are you inherently sustainable? How could that be completely assured? What will I need to have in place? Is the transformation necessary to achieve sustainability be sustainable for the current eaters? Are they sinful? Can we judge them, and rationalize their demise, and our lack of sympathy? Or are we just better off avoiding the inclination to even consider it, as the benefits of any genuine progress far outweighs, and any of the incidental human costs, such as sending people to an early grave by diminshing their access to society, or diminishing the value they can derive from any resource?

Surely, at that point, one has to make the case that those whom we identify as being expected to suffer from the effects of the transformation (higher energy costs, loss of jobs, less access to nutrition, increased rate of aging and disease) will actually do better (cleaner air, fewer disasters, less crime, new technology, miracle food and medicines) thus there is no valid criticism. We have to establish that the net effect is most certainly a diminshed range of vital existence.

Climate Activism

• The great flood
• Malthusian Thinking
• Belief that we control the world
• Belief that we can transcend to a new world if everyone adopts the right behaviour.

Sacrifice

We can get there if you make the same sacrifice I do. And I will tell you specifically what sacrifice that is. If I am a true believer, and I benefit from the issue being serious, then am I really making a sacrifice?

What is my sacrifice? Do I truly expect to have les? Do climate activists live in the smallest houses and avoid traveling? Do they eat foods they find bland or undesirable? Do they avoid hot showers and having a comfortable temperature in their homes?

If a change is coming which necessitates technological and industry changes, then the activists, who concerns themselves with all things social, isn't expecting that they themselves will have to make research discoveries to make and replace products. Their modus operandi is to demand the producers to spend more money in order to meet the particular demands, all under an assumption that there are infinite resources available behind the discretion of certain companies and if they'd listen to our ideas then we would have resources more readily available.

In The Know (Discoveries)

If, indeed, I am a part of the apparatus that tests the very latest discoveries, then it stands to reason that I may be first to benefit. If it is not widespread enough,t he same drive is leading to its greater form and availability to a later date. Surely, if the mechanism to demand is powerful enough, then my affiliation works in so many ways, not just to my own benefit from others as well.

Standing among the most adamant of those demadning it, and among those who most intelligently explicate the need for it, and among those who represent the peak of sophistication. Surely I will at least be one of the relatively earlier adopters. Surely, mankind must do this to survive and if some loss occurs through transition to sustainability, I will be one of those who makes it, since I am most aligned with it.

Climate and Sustainability

• Absolute control over environment
• Humanity is not liberated or even capable of taking a moral standing unless we have fully controlled reality such that we can fulfill the living of a holy life

Gnostic Knowledge

• Special access because
  • more intelligent
  • not corrupt by dependence on oil
  • listening to no or better propaganda
  • University education to learn Climate Change
  • Have a vision of the future

Dialectics

Sustainable Development -> Corporatism -> Stakeholder Capitalism

Human Development -> capitalism -> Sustainable development

Limitless future - limiting circumstance - limited future

Health population level - Overpopulation/underpopulation - Controlled population

Adequate resources - short supplies - rationed distribution

Peaceful living - wastefulness - proportional living

Notes

The assumption, again, that our productive output is also a measure of violence, except when measured in terms which prioritize certain market activity, thereby influencing a shift in market capacities. It is a very high level formal influence which doesn't necessarily benefit a single business entity which presents a distinct conflict of interest, though someone could be just as compromised with such a configuration of situation.

So, then, shall we simply try to make the best of the situation by positioning ourselves amongst the newly prioritized markets, or is that strategy doomed to failure at the time scale of concern? The fundamental problems affecting mankind are still the same, and ones for which there are multiple contentious means of referencing.

Promise of Being

What promise can possibly interest you more than the promise of being? That you are is not contingent on any other recognition and is no crime or moral burden. You can simply be, make observation and become action. The chemicals and particles might seem to suggest that you are not what you perceive, or that what you are is not being, but reacting, and that this calls into question the very basis for understanding ourselves as being sentient beings, but this becomes a choice for each of us; how could you take that away from all of mankind? You wager against them all for what? A false promise of less fear? And now, have you no fear? Have you clarity of mind?

Transcendent Man

Transcendent man is new man. The process of becoming is declared by its very existence and if everyone became this, we would all be liberated. Sexuality is made both glorified and rejected. We seek to have the pleasure by virtue of demonstrating that we are refusing the oppression which demands that our biological realities are used to serve another. Interestingly, it is not assumed that in having developed an interest in sexual deviancy, or sexual/reproductive dysfunction, that we might be serving another interst or entity's needs. The only oppression, in this case, is an expectation that you would continue the genomic propagation of your family tree. Partner is oppressor because they have any expectation of normalcy. An expectation that your family should best hide. The expectation is that you must remain on a path of normal life, where the expected outcomes are just that - a conceived result.

This subjective means of committing all others to the process of liberation is not just limited to a few domains. It appears to be tied into the human experience, and so this wuld help to understand why considering certain speech as forbidden would be the norm, rather than the exception. In climate science, you have professors who remark how their own students are paralyzed with anxiety, which prevents them from performing their scholarly duties at the expected pace, but there is no contemplating whether this is brought about by subjective conception of the threat level - understanding (the degree of) the material conesquence and anticipated rate of impact in a measured and balanced way which takes into account some of the egregious predictions which have failed to come to pass. That some predictions line up is a consolation, but the fact that some of hte most, or all of the most stress-inducing of predictions have been shown to not come true - this is a simple test to demonstrate the degree to which our dimensions are measurable and comprehensible.

Resist

They claim the resist WHAT?

• Image of small dissenting citizens, resisting
• wish to create resistance to status quo in order to form a revolution. Incredible to think that the state has subverted the populace to the point where the populace believes that compliance to the state is the path to revolution. It makes you wonder what the nature of such a revolution would look like. The death of real dissent?