More nuts than usual.

 

Diet is implicated, along with self-involvement. Baseline parameters.

You can write me off. 

 

But I’m an elite American: 

1) Something.

2) Something else.

3) Use my turn signal.

 

C’mon, acknowledge this . . . Climate change brings value change . . .

Verily, psyche climate and geo climate will entrain over time, in our increasingly discounted future . . . Hungry animals take more risks . . . (Yielding the fomentations of my percipient adaptations, brah.)

 

Expect more flit . . . more scatter-brained mania as we the-less-than-stable react to standard deviations of storm that make systemic capsizing more apparent.

 

Collapse Sensing . . . You know, like the dreams Jung’s patients reported before WWII, ankle-high blood covering the land . . . like Native American dreams of the European man. Blood flood.

 

Sometimes dreams come true. Sometimes the mares of night ride the plains – slaughtering buffalo, bringing disease, bringing death.

 

And this night ride, it’s part of large-event physics, the physics description of reality alphabet coded as: self-organized criticality.

 

Periodically, the domino architecture of non-equilibrium systems – tectonic, immune, eco, political, economic – becomes aligned for a rapid, large-scale restructuring . . . again, part of the physics repertoire of non-equilibrium systems (systems in constant flux).

  

Over grazed, over fed, over fished, over populated, over acidified, consumed, carbonated and methanated . . . we’re generating network architectures that will fan-fling exponential excrement.

 

Sometimes Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” goes critical-state . . . generating a terrorist-sky wielding weapons of mass extinction  . . . global blunt force trauma, with ever-greater speed and severity.

Seems like DNA would know this, would have learned about, processed and absorbed periodic collapse in its billions-of-years ride, and have some response mechanisms, some apps-on-file for navigating survival amid the ruins. It does: ramped murder, war, genocide, rape, cannibalism . . . kind of like when a recently-crowned alpha lion kills the old alpha’s cubs so the lioness goes into estrous, so he can breed her, so his DNA prevails.

 

DNA has a plan.

 

Yes, yes, yesmm, there’s love, cooperation, and altruism, too. And yes, DNA isn’t the sole code generating behavior.

 

But, critical-state?

 

“The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died.” – Timothy Snyder writing about Stalin’s starvation of millions of Ukrainians in Bloodlands

Millions.

The Future: Discounted

 

Climate uncertainty yields a higher discounting of the future.

The higher the discount rate, the more likely civilization approaches anarchy with the concomitant emboldened risks taken by stressed, human DNA vehicles; the more likely the brutal collapse-apps are deployed for relationship interface.

 

You already know that.

 

Animals know things. They’re migrating towards the north and south poles.

 

But it’s not enough.

 

Per the fossil record, the background extinction rate is about 10 to 20 species a year.

The current extinction rate has gone exponential. It’s roughly estimated @ 150 to 200 species a DAY!

“The most fundamental phenomenon of the universe is relationship.”  Jonas Salk – Anatomy of Reality

 

Exponential slaughter is not a functional or a moral relationship to have with other species.

Actually, it’s a murder-suicide relationship.

Extinction and climate change discount the future at an accelerating rate, even if the discounting is done unconsciously.

Better run through the jungle.

 

Here’s some severe discounting, done by numerous species:

Starving parents kill their children and eat them.

Humans? Check the yes box.

Run Through the Jungle

  

The future is not that severely discounted at this time: 8:59am, 7.31.11.

 

I can still buy a lottery ticket and a two-liter.

 

Some days: play cultural hooky, room-camp, generate keyboard-coding variation. 

 

Some days: see the ads. They lie; hurt; damage. They are obscene in their omission of reality, in their beckoning for adherence to a status quo that is suicidal . . . nay, check that. The status quo? Nearly omnicidal.

One manner of distillation:

Looking at the multitude of human bodies to feast upon, the bacterium asked a friend, "What the hell happened here?"

"They tried to do natural selection with monetary code."