A Virus More Vile: Conversations with Anons, Ria, and Jack.
Anon 1– (On the covid fascism coming our way)– The end is near! What do we do? I don’t know what to do. I need to do something but what. Where do we run to? Can we even prepare for what’s coming?
J- Good Q’s. I hear you. I don’t know either. It’s driving me crazy, this fucking hyper focus on “cvid#$@!”. While the animals and the Earth are absolutely screaming for relief from the virus of our ways.
A1– So true. It’s so agonizing.
J- We are stuck in the prison of our knowing
Anon 2- We have to keep hacking away at this, and try to get people to wake up to what they are doing with all this covid fascism
J- It’s much deeper than waking ppl up to the current machinations. Our entire Western global civ is completely dysfunctional and anti-life, Earth, and animals.
A2- I think we definitely need to work on ourselves in addition to planting seeds with others. we’re all participating in the system to some degree
J- Yes, for sure. But what does working on ourselves really mean? I think it means facing our illusions about the system in the first place.
Later J & R discuss
R- The people who tolerate listening to the civ critique, even take a moment to agree with it before tuning it out again, aren’t truly even facing it, and here’s why. It’s too much to truly face, like people who ‘love animals’ while eating them. Their baseline for contentment excludes civ’s harms. Once you take that hard look at civ for what it truly is, a look so hard you cannot place it into your mind’s denial, your baseline for contentment is forever obliterated. You never again can be relieved of the burden of just knowing it.
J- Like I said, we are stuck in the prison of our knowing. But what’s the fear of really knowing? You and I do, and we survive it. It’s not like knowing means you have to immediately give up everything and starve to death. There will be transition back to our native natural ways. But first it takes that admission that the whole of civ at its core is the problem and it must be abandoned. It cannot be merely tweaked.
R- And those who do acknowledge our earth ‘crime’ play all kinds of mental gymnastics to relieve the burden of ultimate speciesist supremacy, like ‘permaculture is the sustainable way forward’.
J- Yes, speciesist supremacy, and as you have so aptly have dubbed it, it’s Civ Welfarism. Which is as oxymoronish as “humane slaughter”. Ppl do not want to recognize the deep philosophical (if you will) contradiction fundamentally rooted in civ. They want to think we can have that lifeway, but tweak it so it does only the ”good”. But it’s like you can’t simultaneously laugh and frown at the same time. The consciousness behind civ will always carry with it the mentality of human supremacy and the forces of disconnect and destruction that cannot be distilled out. The laughter in civ is a self-delusion, and a false story, while all the crying goes ignored, save for the lip service to it, in a protestation that we really do care, despite every indication that we do not. Every being on Earth, except for humans, will readily attest to that. They scoff at us, and our eons-long empty promises. And they rightly say the only way out is to leave civ behind and join them. Do we have the courage to listen to their wisdom?
