Utopian Disasters
In A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, author Rebecca Solnit analyzes five major catastrophes to discover the potential for “spontaneous, anarchic recovery” from catastrophic events. Starting with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Solnit illuminates a pattern of “elite panic” characterized by “fear of social disorder; fear of poor, minorities and immigrants; obsession with looting and property crime; willingness to resort to deadly force; and actions taken on the basis of rumor.” The media, she says, perpetuates elite panic by spinning the aftermath to look like mayhem, as if the survivors are “dangerous, not endangered” and warranting a paramilitary rather than humanitarian response. Elite panic is a compounding force to the tragedy almost without exception--from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and more recently Katrina and 9/11.
Paradoxically, Solnit points out that the very disasters that disrupt social structure can also “give rise to small, temporary utopias in which the best of human nature emerges. . .” The basis of these extraordinary communities is the dissolution of societal expectations, the overturning of everyday life that Solnit says is “already a disaster of sorts, from which actual disaster liberates us.”
You can listen to Rebecca Solnit discuss her book on Democracy Now.
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Quantm Breakdown
In Quantum thought there is the principle of "bifurcation" ... that when a system breaks down due to overwhelm {of any kind} ... ... that unlike materialistic thinking that "entropy" or further decay is the only result. ...
... that after such apparent breakdown, systems can actually bifurcate up ... to an even higher plateau than before overwhelm.
Bifurcate up ... bifurcate down.
According to Quantum thought all energy and matter are but "condensations," subtle and gross, from a pre-manifest "zero point field state" {spirit} of pure potential ... that is omnipresent all around and within all possible manifestation.
Dimension ... space ... time ... and all their interactions 'but relative to this all encompassing field
. ...there being no inertial influence {absolute zero} of any "effect" that can actually determine potential "cause" ...
Hence the very mystery of consciousness .... in it's pre and post effectual awareness.
Sometimes when heavy smoker, someone who maybe also lives in a polluted area, {example} goes out to the country ... breathes only pure fresh air.
They actually may appear to cough even more than normal, as the pure air is introducing a bifurcation, leading, ultimately, to a better state of breathing.
So maybe we are cosmically / socially approaching a high state of quantum transformation, which is forcing all of our baddest hands to be played out so as to release all possible misnomer upwards to higher levels of order.
Like listening to a struggling musician ... having to bear so many sour notes until sweet ones finally arrive.
I hope this is not too redundant, as I have partially referred to this quantum principle before ... just thought I would give it a more complete perspective.
This means, in a nut shell, that there is no real inertial law of entropy that governs any systems progression , or digression, based on inertia alone ... counter to all previous reductionistic and deterministic, mech-tech type thinking.
Such breakdowns are always non-efficient karmic patterning's ... that simply have to be released ... disease, war, drought, pestilence ... bifurcating to higher and lower levels of order only based on the ultimate "balance" among "All That Is"
Sometimes due to addicting drugs or other degrading social activities, a person comes to a point of overwhelm.
In some cases they bifurcate down towards lower states until death or suicide, or plan destitution.
Yet for others, under similar intensities of system {body, mind, emotion} overwhelm ... there is a bifurcation upwards to a lifestyle or way of thinking that was even higher than before the degrading lifestyle.
Hitting the bottom to find the top, so to speak.
There has been off and on discussion about how some Entheogenic substances can bring ones body to a point of overwhelm {nausea, puking, nervous tension, sweating etc ... yet after they pass such symptomatology, "sometimes/often" there are physical feelings of greater strength and vigor to previously taking the plant substance.
This of course holds true of mental and emotional "freaking out" during intense Entheogenic vision ... again coming around to an even greater sense of beauty and meaning after having passed through those preliminary karmic patternings.
Like Jesus fasting for forty days ... having to bear all the celestial and/or demoniac {tree of knowledge vision to come to a true unified field, or Spiritual state of transcendence.
The Buddha .. the same thing ... witnessing many hellish visions until true enlightenment transpires.
... the Egyptian Mystery schools ... Vision Quests etc etc ... it always being a challenge between unity and diversity
We are witnessing so much true-time hell here in todays world, but we have to know that it is all but "maya" before the infinite, all -pervading field of spirit ... or pure unlimited potential.
No matter how many karmic patterns appear upon the infinite screen, the actual "story" always has as much potential to bifurcate upwards as downwards.
Choose Love
Elite panic as a reaction to catastrophe requires, in the true elitist, a presumption of superiority, and the established rights of their elitist position as founded by their culture and supported by their society.
Common panic as a reaction to catastrophe often results in many different actions ranging from self-survival at any cost, to unselfish recognition of the need to exercise their duties as opposed to their rights.
What the future is waiting for is a bifurcating event of such magnitude that the only logical response will be the willing exercise of duties of conscience motivated by love.
Such an event will have to instantly extinguish the rights of the so-called Elite, and completely disarm the self-centered motivation of the Survivalist.
In my opinion, it will have to be an overwhelming catastrophe of such magnitude wherein those of all social groups who survive will retain an individual conscientious choice to react in whatever manner, but -on this new level playing field- will choose to conclude that reacting with love will be the only logical choice.
Only a world-wide consensus of this level of focus and coherence will have the energy needed to provide the point of bifurcation necessary for humanity to AGREE to survive as a species.
Choose Love.
Read this book PLEASE!! NOW NOW NOW!!!