> The basis of the economy percolates through all levels of human
> activity to become the basis of the character of the people in the
> economy, which then becomes the character of the societies and
> policies that the people create. In the same way as the Roman Empire
> built itself on slave labor - and made the basis of Roman character
> cruelty, brutality, conquest, predation, short-sightedness, laziness
> and oppression - so the oil economy fosters in people a character that
> mimics in its mentality the character of oil industry itself. This
> character is toxic, extractive, destructive, short-sighted, polluting,
> and ensnaring. And its poisonous influence can only be significantly
> reduced through a greater use of clean energy - and greater influence
> for life-affirming, intelligent, provident, and socially and
> environmentally responsible character that its development and
> widespread use stand to foster in humankind.
>
> The oil character is the character of extraction and exploitation, but
> that's not remotely the end of it. From combustion of oil, are
> encouraged worldviews that see the world as being given, and of man as
> only there to burn it without consideration for the rest of the world
> or for its future. The planet is seen as there for people to burn; the
> people are seen as there only to burn it for present consumption.
> Which means that anything that cares for the given world that man has
> not created, like anything that cares for the future of the
> civilization that man creates, is a competing interest that must be
> wiped out by any possible means.
>
> Since the oil resources are finite, the oil character does not see nor
> plan for life beyond the time that oil runs out. Any mentality that
> sees this, looks for alternatives, or stands to create alternatives,
> is mortal enemy to the oil industry. Not only therefore is the oil
> character is short-sighted to the point of being apocalyptic and as
> such foresees - and effectively works to bring about in its
> spirituality, politics and economics =96 an artificial end of the world;
> but far more significantly it is aggressively, imposingly and
> overbearingly so, and seeks to stamp out by all measures all that is
> not itself.
>
> As people are made dependent on oil industry for their lives and their
> livelihood, the economic foundations of life and liberty are likewise
> destroyed. All thought systems, spiritualities, psychologies, are
> manipulated by this interest toward forcing assimilation into the oil-
> industry way of living, but more profoundly into the oil character.
> These then are directed directly toward destruction of qualities that
> might influence people to not quite like this state of affairs or be
> motivated to look for or seek to create better alternatives: qualities
> such as knowledge and respect for the planet and nature in all its
> complexity and diversity; caring for humanity and its future; ability
> to create innovative solutions; and all in the human being =96
> intellect, curiosity, natural wisdom, compassion, love of life,
> humanitarian orientation, and capacity for creative and innovative
> thinking =96 that might make these possible. Which means that destroyed
> is not only life and liberty, but also all in people that seeks and
> makes possible the above. First the order destroys life and liberty at
> economic level; then at spiritual, intellectual, and psychological
> levels; then finally at the political level. And then the oil order
> sets humanity careening toward planetary destruction while in the
> process destroying everything that is of life and liberty in its own
> ranks.
>
> The extractive oil character is one of destruction of nature with no
> sight for the future and no creative role for man. It pits the
> interests of the industry against both what man has not created and
> everything that man has created and that he stands to create. Which
> means that both nature and mankind become enemies of the industry; and
> that creates the most destructive of all conceivable orientations. At
> social level, we speak of oil-based mentalities and their orders
> subduing, exploiting and driving into extinction all that is life-
> affirming at both natural and human level =96 controlling, expropriating
> and deceiving what can be controlled, deceived and expropriated;
> demonizing, abusing and destroying what cannot. At the political
> level, we speak of oil-funded Texas Fundamentalists claiming
> ridiculously to speak for America and then seeking to destroy, screw
> and enslave everybody who are not oil-funded Texas-Oklahoma
> Fundamentalists, both outside of America and within.
>
> All that is life in nature, and all that is life in man, are targeted
> for contamination, discrediting and destruction with eye toward
> eternal damnation. This is true for all that is physical and
> emotional; it is also true for all that is of the mind. Science,
> business, politics, art, relation****ps, are there to be conquered,
> subdued, eviscerated, and made through force and deception to serve
> the agenda of artificial Armageddon. Anything that is life-affirming,
> is sabotaged, corrupted, contaminated, slandered, defunded,
> discredited, undermined, in order that people can be led to believe
> the explanations that want to ****tray life as sin and all its
> manifestations as evil. Which people then want to bring about an end
> to life as such.
>
> To that end no lie, no cruelty, no violation, no atrocity, is
> inacceptable. This is the case among oil-funded states claiming to
> profess both Christianity and Islam. The puppet of oil-funded Texas
> Fundamentalist acquiring Republican nomination by spreading false
> rumors about his opponent, getting in office through corrupt dealings,
> putting the government trillions dollars in debt amid collapsing
> family incomes, silencing truth about global warming, deceiving
> America into a war, and doing what he can to destroy the true
> greatness of America - its constitutional democracy, its ingenuity,
> its scientific knowledge, its affirmation and preservation of rights
> and liberties, its foresight, its humanitarian orientation, its
> willingness to lead through true diplomacy rather than barbarism, and
> the freedom of speech, thought, and way of life, that has made
> possible its accomplishments - while claiming ridiculously to be
> making America stronger and greater =96 this, is only the political
> manifestation of the oil character. Its effect on the people within
> and on the world without, are even worse.
>
> The oil character does not see man as a creator but only as a
> destroyer; thus it destroys man's capacity to create. Its hatred of
> nanotechnology, biotech, stem-cell research, genetics, is of the same
> mindset as its hatred of innovation, of ingenuity, of individuality
> and of art. By sabotaging and eviscerating man's capacity to create,
> is destroyed man's capacity to create a long-term and livable future.
> It is as such the worst possible way to relate both man and nature,
> destroying nature while also destroying man. And from this mentality,
> outgrows a toxic, necrophilic, destructive, totalitarian and
> apocalyptic character =96 which then becomes the character of the oil
> arrangement, and shapes their economics, their politics, their
> spiritual life, and their inter-relations. A character that feeds on
> life, poisons life, inhibits life, and seeks to make life
> uninhabitable =96 and uses man's intellect, emotion, physicality,
> spirit, everything, toward not merely abusive and totalitarian but in
> fact apocalyptic ends.
>
> Driven by oil mentality man destroys nature; then he destroys the
> foundations of his own existence. And in the process man's mindset as
> well as man's activities mimic the worst practices of the oil industry
> - short-sightedness, expropriation, aggressive ignorance, violence
> against life at all levels, criminalization and demonization of all
> thoughts and characters that may see to the contrary, destruction of
> liberty, and apocalyptic totalitarianism. The past life that is fossil
> fuel is burned; so through poisoning and global warming is life
> present as well as life future. The inheritance of the past is
> squandered, the present is poisoned, and the world is set to slide
> toward an artificial end. The character that burns dead dinosaurs,
> also makes dinosaurs of the living while destroying anything that is
> not a dinosaur and anything in people that may lead to clarity as to
> the character of the dinosaur ways. And just as dinosaurs died out in
> a mass extinction, so has the order based on the burning of the dead
> dinosaurs created the fastest extinction in the history of the planet
> - the order that now threatens the existence also of humanity itself.
>
> Clean energy, on the other hand, is not based on extraction or on
> combustion, nor does it work toward a planet-wide poisoning. Clean
> energy is based on transmutation, by high technology, of abundant
> energy into usable energy, while generating in the process no poisons
> or waste. This process fulfils the energy needs of the civilization,
> while being itself non-obtrusive to the planet and its inhabitants.
> The achievements, knowledge, prosperity, of civilization, are made
> possible through tapping into abundant energy of such sources as the
> sun and the oceans, without producing any toxic byproducts and without
> poisoning life present or sabotaging yet-to-come. The creative,
> constructive uses of human intelligence make it possible for both
> nature and civilization to exist =96 for nature to be accepted and left
> as nature, and for man to make the best of man and his world.
>
> This makes the best of the given and the created. The world given that
> is nature is known, respected, and left as much alone as possible; the
> world created that is the civilization exists in all of what it
> capable and reaches, through maximization of intelligent creation and
> minimization of waste and destruction, to greater heights with no end
> in sight. The mind is not used to blindly destroy, but to
> intelligently build on the givens, to provide sustainable long-term
> existence for the civilization that man has created, while treading
> lightly upon the nature that man has not.
>
> The sun and the ocean water are not at risk of running out for
> thousands of years; which means that, with clean energy, the world can
> be counted upon to be there for a long time. This allows the people to
> conceive and work toward a future that is indefinite rather than one
> that will end when the predatory oil-funded dinosaurs extinguish the
> life on the planet while telling people that it is punishment from God
> and using that to suffocate them still more. Life can go on, in both
> natural and human aspects, and people can plan and work towards a
> viable long-term future for themselves and for humanity. This builds
> in people the habits that are prudent, responsible, viable and
> conducive to life.
>
> Clean energy recognizes, validates, and respects both nature and man,
> and makes most and not the least of life in both aspects. Nature is
> not just resources to be burned for consumption without regard for the
> future; it is something that is respected for its variety and richness
> and life-generative capacity - while man, rather than being merely a
> short-sighted destroyer, becomes an intelligent creator who builds on
> the knowledge of science and technology to create a livable future and
> livable world. Prosperity is not sacrificed; it is enhanced and
> extended. And so is livability of the planet, as well as of
> civilization itself.
>
> The high levels of technology needed to put in place solar beams and
> similar devices encourage and validate the view of humanity as
> intelligent beings responsible for the destiny of both humanity and
> the planet, while also drawing on - making constructive use of - and
> fostering - in people inventive intelligence, long-term perspective,
> generative capacity, responsibility for the future, eye toward maximal
> benefit and minimal destruction, and greater understanding of, respect
> for, and caring for, the world - both in the given, natural aspect,
> and in the human, man-created, form. The mentality and character that
> is encouraged, both in people and in their social and economic and
> political activities, is therefore one that makes most of these
> virtues. It is the character that not only makes possible to
> indefinitely power the civilization while being minimally obtrusive to
> nature, but also fosters a nobler, more prudent, more responsible,
> more creative, more nonobtrusive, and more life-affirming and life-
> extending character in the people who would inhabit such a
> civilization - and, pursuant this, in the character of the orders that
> they stand to create.
>
> Not only does clean energy therefore lead to a viable future, but it
> also fosters a more viable character in the people and consequently in
> the economic, political, and social orders that they create. From
> predatory destroyers eating alive the world and engorging themselves
> in the process, people become intelligent human beings who work toward
> a sustainable future in which the natural world can keep living, as
> civilization remains existing and achieves ever greater heights. The
> qualities of clean energy economy - responsibility toward the future,
> high levels knowledge, inventiveness and intelligence, use of mind to
> create, sustaining and growing the civilization while taking care to
> tread lightly upon the planet, life-affirming character that uses mind
> for constructive solutions that maximize creation and minimizes
> destruction, and respect found by intelligence for what man has not
> created as well as respect earned by intelligence for opting for and
> implementing this arrangement - will become more and more the
> substance of people's characters and percolate more and more to their
> social and political interactions to impart to them greater levels of
> these virtues. And that is a positive influence not only for the
> chance of the world to have a viable future, but also for the
> character of the people who stand to inherit the world.
>
> Ilya
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Excellent post.
Bret Cahill
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