Hooped is a term I picked up years from a co- worker when I was a working as a framing carpenter. I was new to the job and I’d built something in a way that wouldn’t work.. but I couldn’t see it. My seasoned co- worker looked at it and told me nicely that there was no point in continuing with it because I was “hooped.”
I don’t mean that we should give up caring. But we have known the risk since the 1990’s, and I believe we are out of time to avoid catastrophic climate change. I believe it has begun and that the IPCC has been much too conservative in their projections. Although I respect climate scientists like Katherine Hayhoe, I don’t believe it’s realistic to believe this civilization given its consumption, energy use and growth with it’s current economic/ banking / governing systems can make the kind of radical and immediate and change now required to avoid near term and catastrophic climate change. I’m sure climate geo- engineering will be put on the table… but that’s a very bad idea IMO.
Given what you’ve written, I think you understand.
But I didn’t even start getting spiritual until I had grappled with this situation (I’m not religious). Because reaching the end of being convinced that yes, certainly at least in an objective and materialist/ scientific….and not since “The Great Flood”…. has civilization been so unprecedentedly “ screwed” my opinion. But dealing with this reality is what led me to question things I hadn’t before… I’m taking what we know about the nature of reality itself.
It was an atheist climate doomer I really respected and that I was following for a while that happened upon a book by a scientist/ philosopher from Denmark named Bernardo Kastrup called Why Materialism Is Baloney that had shattered his life long belief in scientific materialism. Long story…but until I began to investigate things like the nature of consciousness I wasn’t able to open up enough to understand to the concept of non duality and “ mind over matter”…because all I could imagine was a really hopeless, pointless and depressing situation.
Cameron, thank you. You write, "We are surrounded by smoke and illusion—crafted images, half-truths, orchestrated distractions. Laws rewritten. Histories erased. People scapegoated. The project of authoritarianism doesn’t just rely on violence; it relies on distortion." So true. I'm reminded of Germany in the 1930's, as told by Max Picard (1888-1965) in his book, "Hitler in Ourselves." He was born a German Jew, and wondered why the German people could have been attracted to Hitler. First, because they suffered so severely after WWI, but also because they had lost their deep continuity of living. They were disjointed and disconnected, lacking spiritual and psychological connectedness. They heard Hitler's shrill proclamation that there IS a center that will ground and connect everyone, and that center is himself. As if to say, Now, we will all be a good family with him as the father, and it will last 1,000 years (not merely a third term). God bless us all.
I think that’s a great parable. But I wonder how things would look if clear mirror was held up to the current environmental situation. I believe that it would show is what most people either refuse to believe or can’t comprehend… that we are hooped.
I’m no fan of Elon Musk or big tech, but l think they understand this.
“Hooped” is a new term for me. Does that mean screwed? Hopeless? Toast? Given the realities of climate change, and the seeming inability for humanity to address the ways in which we are harming the earth, it does seem that a mirror would show us a very dire future. For my part, I commit to doing all I can to live in peaceful and reciprocal relationship with the Earth without holding shallow Hope that we can bypass the suffering we are creating.
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Hooped is a term I picked up years from a co- worker when I was a working as a framing carpenter. I was new to the job and I’d built something in a way that wouldn’t work.. but I couldn’t see it. My seasoned co- worker looked at it and told me nicely that there was no point in continuing with it because I was “hooped.”
I don’t mean that we should give up caring. But we have known the risk since the 1990’s, and I believe we are out of time to avoid catastrophic climate change. I believe it has begun and that the IPCC has been much too conservative in their projections. Although I respect climate scientists like Katherine Hayhoe, I don’t believe it’s realistic to believe this civilization given its consumption, energy use and growth with it’s current economic/ banking / governing systems can make the kind of radical and immediate and change now required to avoid near term and catastrophic climate change. I’m sure climate geo- engineering will be put on the table… but that’s a very bad idea IMO.
Given what you’ve written, I think you understand.
But I didn’t even start getting spiritual until I had grappled with this situation (I’m not religious). Because reaching the end of being convinced that yes, certainly at least in an objective and materialist/ scientific….and not since “The Great Flood”…. has civilization been so unprecedentedly “ screwed” my opinion. But dealing with this reality is what led me to question things I hadn’t before… I’m taking what we know about the nature of reality itself.
It was an atheist climate doomer I really respected and that I was following for a while that happened upon a book by a scientist/ philosopher from Denmark named Bernardo Kastrup called Why Materialism Is Baloney that had shattered his life long belief in scientific materialism. Long story…but until I began to investigate things like the nature of consciousness I wasn’t able to open up enough to understand to the concept of non duality and “ mind over matter”…because all I could imagine was a really hopeless, pointless and depressing situation.
Cameron, thank you. You write, "We are surrounded by smoke and illusion—crafted images, half-truths, orchestrated distractions. Laws rewritten. Histories erased. People scapegoated. The project of authoritarianism doesn’t just rely on violence; it relies on distortion." So true. I'm reminded of Germany in the 1930's, as told by Max Picard (1888-1965) in his book, "Hitler in Ourselves." He was born a German Jew, and wondered why the German people could have been attracted to Hitler. First, because they suffered so severely after WWI, but also because they had lost their deep continuity of living. They were disjointed and disconnected, lacking spiritual and psychological connectedness. They heard Hitler's shrill proclamation that there IS a center that will ground and connect everyone, and that center is himself. As if to say, Now, we will all be a good family with him as the father, and it will last 1,000 years (not merely a third term). God bless us all.
I think that’s a great parable. But I wonder how things would look if clear mirror was held up to the current environmental situation. I believe that it would show is what most people either refuse to believe or can’t comprehend… that we are hooped.
I’m no fan of Elon Musk or big tech, but l think they understand this.
“Hooped” is a new term for me. Does that mean screwed? Hopeless? Toast? Given the realities of climate change, and the seeming inability for humanity to address the ways in which we are harming the earth, it does seem that a mirror would show us a very dire future. For my part, I commit to doing all I can to live in peaceful and reciprocal relationship with the Earth without holding shallow Hope that we can bypass the suffering we are creating.
Thank you for the wisdom you share so generously. These posts are helping me to stay awake to what is real and to seek compassionate action.