Notes from a last-chance manifesto speech: New World Order
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Over the past several decades, humanity has developed sustainable living concepts for materials, nutrition, production methods, societal coherence, personal well-being, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
People! Too few of these ideas are in practice or making significant enough impact because the idea of sustainability is fundamentally opposed to our economic model, which seeks growth as opposed to balance.
The environmental collapse we are witnessing has accelerated global conflicts, and media echo chambers have exacerbated social unrest. The tsunami of fictional narratives it has produced has led to wildly extreme biases that have burned out of control and created unstable political arenas, struggles for power, and a serious threat to democracy. In turn, these political instabilities have prevented the opportunity for working in productive and collaborative ways towards reaching a collective good. As we have now all agreed, we simply do not have time for this dissonance!
We must now curate our global landscape and elevate our sustainable ideals from concept to practice using all of the tools, inventions, and technologies we have. We must promote enlightenment, creativity, balance, and resiliency — and condemn greed, apathy, pollution, and waste.
As agreed upon by democratic vote, the only solution now is to wipe the slate clean and begin again, combining humanity’s wealth of knowledge with a realignment of values. Such is the announcement that, as of today, January 5th, 2035, we are starting anew.
We are relieved of our servitude to obsolete symbols of value, and we are now able to make decisions from a position of purity. We will construct our new world with harmonious forms of human and environmental relationships. We will employ thousands of excellent ideas, creating diverse forms of resilient and balanced living. We will use the sciences and arts to create beauty, rather than exploiting them for commercial gain!
The last ship to Mars with the final group of dissenters has launched and we have disabled its return. The pollution their construction has caused on our planet has left us almost completely deficient and barely operable, but like the Phoenix, we will rise again! We who have stayed have pledged to be reflective, intelligent, empathic, modest, and wise — because we have seen a glimpse of Hell, we know that we are its enablers, and we have decided NOT to allow its perpetuation. We will NOT run from what we have created. The transformation begins TODAY!
(Crowd cheers)
Writing & Illustration: Jessica Smarsch
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