In the 21st century it is difficult to distinguish innovation from extraction. The people at the helm of their organisations are strip mining them for parts. Developers breakdown communities. Publishers hoard and enclose data. Mining has reached its end and now the structure can only collapse if we continue forward.
Is collapse inevitable? No. We have learned a thing or two in the last fifty years. But the main lesson is this: there is enough for everyone.
We waste nearly half the food we produce, yet people go hungry. Beaches are lined with never used clothing, yet people go cold. Every main street has more empty buildings than occupied ones, yet people sleep on the curb outside of them.
We hold up artificial scarcity for what? So we can feel like we have accomplished something in being able to find a room or buy another jacket? The emptiness we would feel if it was revealed it was all for nothing. That we haven’t achieved anything because the only acheivment for our time is emancipation and we are further from that goal by the day.
Freedom from the known, freedom by means of knowledge as true knowledge can only produce peace and love, freedom from what we think are our only choices.
