I feel that moral outrage abounds these days.

To the degree this is so, I observe it tends to move people toward non-rational motivated reasoning. Consequently, I speculate that we are simply not evolved enough, as a species, to think clearly and govern sapiently when facing the fears involved in simultaneous environmental and economic collapses. Neocons obfuscate in hopes of saving a better past. Neo-progressives promote a industry scripted policy that is both scientifically inadequate, and a different iteration of the same hope. The irony of the resulting moral warfare would be funny, if the consequences for society were not so dire.

The sad thing is that people will somehow adapt, though in greatly reduced numbers, and in sterile and militarized circumstances. It’s the rest of God’s creation that will be massacred.

Many Republican opponents are fundamentalist Christians, so it would be a win-win for them. They get whooshed up to heaven that much sooner. And if this kind of fantasy drives policy, maybe the earth needs to reset the whole evolutionary pattern here on planet Earth.

The old adage – ‘Paralysis by Analysis’

None of these so-called “conservative” Senators have an ideological bone in their body. They are bribed-bought-and-paid-for agents of their corporate paymasters — in this instance, for the fossil fuel, mining and other extractive industries and the large utilities that are heavily invested in coal. They do what they do and say what they say because that’s what they are paid to do and say. Their only “ideology” is naked greed.

Can we save us from ourselves?

Best,

D