Endurance

The industrial society project that began in Europe and quickly spread around the globe with colonialism may have peaked in its patterns of development, but it still has a ways to go in consolidating its ill-gotten gains. This system of social organization that spawned both elitism, consumerism and militarism -- abetted by the marketing and media industries -- is largely spent in terms of growth potential, and now practices a high-tech form of cannibalism and human sacrifice. Expecting anything good to follow from staying on the industrial trajectory is sheer folly.