A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.

From the author;
“Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the point to have What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire seen in every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable”

 
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The following video is a powerful and thought-provoking speech taken from the Ayn Rand book ‘Atlas Shrugged’.

A dramatization of the John Galt speech by: Richard Gleaves

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

~ Andrew Boyd

The following quote of wisdom from Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, gives us a stark reminder regarding Man’s psyche and what evils he is capable of because of it.

Because we need more psychology, we need more understanding of human nature because the only real danger that exists is man himself, he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.”

~ Carl Jung

The following short parables of wisdom are from the Manly P. Hall lecture ‘Wisdom of the Greeks Can Help Solve Problems of Modern Society’, concerning the pervasive behavior which governs everyday life.

These parables, which were once told about the great philosophers of ancient Greece, command a certain wit, humour and personality with, obviously, a touch of wisdom.

However, they all teach a serious but beneficial lesson regarding the human condition, that reveals how one’s mind can be so easily susceptible to the destructive and divisive charms of superficiality.  All this at the very expense of one’s own authentic spiritual growth, self improvement and general well-being.

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What then must we do?

“We reproduce catastrophe because we ourselves are traumatized –both as a species and individually, beginning at birth. Because we are wounded, we have put up psychic defenses against reality and have become so cut off from direct participation in the multidimensional wilderness in which we are embedded that all we can do is to navigate our way cautiously through a humanly-designed world of symbols – a world of dollars, minutes, numbers, images and words that are constantly being manipulated to wring the most possible profit from every conceivable circumstance. The body and spirit both rebel.”

~ David Watson, Pathology of Civilization