I create my writing, videos, and music in the context of my broader point of view. Many of my individual works, however, reflect but one facet of that viewpoint, and when studied out of context risk giving a misleading impression of where I stand. For that reason I write this essay: this is the nutshell of my whole point of view. It encapsulates, in the briefest format possible, the totality of where I stand and what motivates me.
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The world is fucked up.
Something needs to change -- and fast.
We human beings are the problem.
It is our responsibility as a species to change things. No one and nothing else is going to rescue us or solve the problem.
There are too many of us on the planet, we use too many resources, and we use many resources dangerously.
We need to have fewer kids -- and fast.
The best way to change the course of humanity is for us to grow up, become emotionally mature, use our brains -- and fast. Nothing else is going to solve the problem.
The best way for us to grow up, become mature, and engage our mental potential is to heal our unresolved childhood issues -- and fast. No other idea in the history of the world has remotely as much potential efficacy.
Healing our unresolved childhood issues would accomplish two separate things: First, it would make us far better and less abusive parents, because when we heal our traumas we don’t pass them on to our children, and second, because of this, any children we had would be far healthier stewards of the earth and better parents too, because they wouldn’t be so traumatized, and thus, by extension, destructive.
The best way for us to heal our unresolved childhood traumas is to do self-therapy -- and fast. The best way to optimize self-therapy is to focus our energies inward by avoiding engaging in projection, thus, to not have kids (the easiest projection objects), to be single, to be celibate, to limit or curtail contact with our parents, and to live healthy lifestyles. The seeming conundrum here is that those of us who are most likely to heal are the least likely to have kids. The short-term answer to this is that we who become healthy become parents by proxy to the whole species. The long-term answer is that once the species as a whole plays catch-up and heals into maturity, then many of the healthiest among us would then want to procreate.
Anyone who denies we are in a major rush to change things has his or her head buried in the sand, and lacks an ability to fathom the destruction we will have wreaked on our planet and on our children's children in a few short generations' time. Conclusion here: the time to change is now. If you deny this you are part of the problem.
Despite the rush we are in, healing ourselves is a process that takes time. It does not happen overnight. But it need not take many decades or generations, especially if we have allies on the healing path.
Attempting this plan requires major sacrifice -- personal, emotional, social, familial, economic, and relational. So be prepared for a rough road. The irony is that we presently have the option of sacrificing; in the future, if we don’t do our homework, these sacrifices will be thrust upon us in far less pleasant ways.
I support experimentation. If any of my ideas sound too extreme or farfetched, I suggest consciously testing them for yourself. I have arrived at my point of view through testing -- often doing the opposite of what I suggest above. That is how I gained perspective. And I continue to test. The only thing I strongly suggest not testing is having children. That is one test with irreversible consequences.
I have hope, because I have seen how radically people can change. I also love humanity.