DIFFICULTY OF TRANSFORMATION
If we even dare to contemplate the transformation of society from that
of the exchanging of the principle of separation, the passing of dirty money
from hand to hand, we are confronted with the utter inconceivableness of
the idea. Every transaction of economic interaction with other human beings
is denoted through this medium, and has been the developing tool of humankind
for more than twenty centuries. An evolution beyond this arbitrator of scarcity
implies the overcoming of scarcity, and the elimination of scarcity necessitates
less for those whose wealth is gained from another's deprivation. Those whose
now possess that power of ability to command goods and materials, those who
are most in position to effect the change of transformation, are those most
likely to offer resistance to any change in their social status. This is
most patently evident in the forceful cultural molding which presently seeks
to extend the domain of the private automobile, primarily for the interests
of the manufacturers thereof, with a singleness of intent which will not
conceive the global necessity for a turning away from increased dependence
upon private transportation. Therefore, we are not speaking simply of an
evolution, which naturally comes from that which is already prevalent; we
are speaking more of a revolution, the overturning of the existent by means
of a journey through chaos, propelled not by armed endeavor but by the impetus
of an imminent incapacity of society to function, by a seeking for a way
of intelligence which shines as light within darkness.
The power that a way of direction possesses to capture the aspiration and endeavor of humankind, depends upon the integrity of that way, its singularity as feasibility, its indispensableness in terms of alternative courses, its perceived real value for those who might participate. A way can move with the force equal to that necessity which drives it, in this case, the probable obsolescence of the greater part of the global infrastructure. A way is far more than a series of legislative measures, or fiscal incentives, far more than fossilized religions and ideals. A way is the Way when there is none other that will carry us to the other shore beyond the darkness.
We are wont to underestimate the force that the limitations of nature can exert upon us, and would not concede that these might be the best for us, even if they are to drive us through a chaos. Never has the earth been treated as if it were integral, with ill actions always to bring eventually ill consequences. Nor has humanity been considered in its integrity, with responsibility for each being that of all and responsibility for the all being that of each. We have long played with our new found technologies and reveled in that which we have chosen to call wealth; forgotten that our mother in the universe, our home, without replacement or substitute, is and shall ever be the planet earth; forgotten that the images on the television of the starving and the wretched can be of real people, who can be ignored even as the conditions of the planet, only for the moment now quickly waning. How can we treat the planet as integrity of ecological interactions if we attempt to ignore those forces that affect the planet, in the needs and consequences of human behavior?
There is scarcely no greater transformation of human culture imaginable than a surpassing of usage of money, which would require so many new forms of relation in order to become existent, which promises the possibility of such great change, and which could not prevail being a position needing so much human aspiration, were it not desired in the most deepest and inconscient depths of human being. Completely contrary to imposition by force is it by very nature, capable of coming into existence only through cooperation and voluntary endeavor. It would have force to compel a participation of the unwilling only if chaos were to raise its feared form, with no other alternative practicable.
We will transform our social motions toward that which treats human kind as one family, our family, only if we are compelled by the necessity of global interrelations.
--Morningthunder