FRIDAY, DEC 10, 2021
Final Exit
And then what? I don't know.
Seek out the condition now that will come anyway.
—H.T. Odum
Eric Lee, A-SOCIATED PRESS
TOPICS: SELF-EUTHANASIA, SELF-BURIAL, FROM THE WIRES, SUSTAINABLE LIVING, SURVIVAL ISSUES
Abstract: Some words in parting.
COOS BAY (A-P) — I have decided I should commit philosophical suicide because I have a message for humankind, one that I have been unable to spread otherwise, one that could matter to posterity.
If, like Ted Kaczynski, I killed enough people, some significant fraction of humanity might become aware of my manifesto. Alternative would be to hit humanity upside their blindered head with a different 2x4. Perhaps if I kill myself in such a way as to get the attention of the public, some small fraction of those who know enough to have an opinion will critically read/consider my message to humanity.
I could self-immolate in front of the UN, but that would be a variation on protest as usual. I've decided to self-euthanize and bury myself. So far as I can determine, no one has conducted a self burial.
With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson:
Under the wide and starry sky,
I dug the grave in which I lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hiker home from the hill.
I bequeath to posterity my existential concerns for humanity and the biosphere: concerns and possible solutions that matter more than my living a few more years or even a decade or two longer as my parents and grandparents did. And by the way, I'm not poor—I could go on a cruise every year and otherwise live in luxury, for a time, as most who have served modern techno-industrial society well do (for a time).
Top 10 ideas that might matter:
- A world language (e.g. sematography) enabling average autodidacts to teach themselves to read the Encyclopedia Bliss (impact printed on aluminum pages diverted from beer can production) to save information packages.
- Learn how to live properly with the planet from former expansionists who may have figured it out 1100 years ago by learning to listen.
- A rapid birth-off to avoid a die-off of those who vote with their feet (those voting with their feet avoid the die-off by agreeing to a rapid birth-off that also selects for foresight intelligence).
- A political party to end all political parties and politics.
- Intentional eMigration, the vote with your feet to walk away from Omelas option.
- Hundreds of WMUs (watershed management units) able to pass through the coming bottleneck with information (and some literate, numerate, renormalizing ecolate humans) intact to form a low density global United Federation of Watersheds.
- Belief-based pretend knowing/thinking as cognitive pathology recognized to destroy the modern education system.
- Technocracy updated: naturocracy/matriocracy for the 21st century to end the Anthropocene.
- A matrifocal religion compatible with evidence and reason.
- A design for a viable civilization.
A self-burial will involve technology, as will spread of the "news" of my death and possible spread of memes that may matter. Ted Kaczynski used the system (e.g. postal/legal system and media) and technology (e.g. bombs) in his endeavor to destroy modern techno-industrial society (and form of civilization if not by bombs, then one mind at a time on a pathway that increase geometrically).
