Logic, Technologic and Biologic Once upon a time, we humans shifted from a world view grounded in the supernatural to a world view based on logic, reason and rational thought. Well, some of us did. All right, a few of us did.   You may have heard about it: it was called The Enlightenment (to distinguish it from all those other enlightenments).   The idea was, and is, that we can build a rational view of the world through observation and verification, so that we can understand Why Things Happen the Way They Do. Perhaps even forecast the consequences of our own actions and take steps to avoid problems in the future through rational action in the present.   That was the idea anyway.   Along the way twixt Hither and Yon, somewhere near Over Yonder, the whole thing twisted logic into techno-logic, reason became treason and rational thought became national thoughtlessness. Biologic became associated with the old supernatural, rejected by the new regime as insufficiently cost-effective, unsupportive of the new world of technocratic, industrial growth.   We have now reached the apex of the new regime and we can peer, dimly, into the dark valley before us. Apex means at the top: it's all downhill from here. At least from the technologic perspective. For us green and squiggly folks, it's old home week ahead!   Most everyone views the coming changes, as a result of global climate change, peak oil, economic collapse or global thermonuclear conflagration, or any combination of the above, as technological changes, changes that require only a new, or old, technology in order for humans to adapt to the new conditions. Renewable energy resources, hydrogen fuel, mass transit, even a return to the caves: all of these are technological viewpoints that focus on human technological responses to the coming changes.   In reality, what we are facing is a mental, cultural and societal paradigm shift in the way we view the Universe and all that within it lies. A thousand years from now, those humans who manage to survive, if there are any at all, will view the world in startling different ways than we technocratic humans do now. Our entire relationship to the non-human world will change drastically, if humans are to be a part of this Universe much longer.   Centrally, the surviving humans will no longer view the non-human world as separate from the human world, from which humans view the rest of the Universe as dispassionate, objective observers. They will know intuitively, because they have survived, that anything that humans do that negatively affects any part of the Universe, will negatively affect humans as well. "Do unto Life what you would have Life do unto you" will be the One Truism.   Those humans who survive will know that nothing can be used faster than it can be replenished, because if they do, it won't be there any longer, and all living things that depend on it will die, including the humans. They will also know that humans cannot willy-nilly trash the neighborhood without the neighborhood trashing back in return: turnabout's fair play.   Simple logic: biologic.   Since we can conceive of this ideas in the present, one would think that we could predict the consequences of our actions and take steps to build a world based on bio-logic rather than techno-logic as a preparation and practice for the coming changes.   Wouldn't one?   *SIGH*   Perhaps this is evolution in action, a logical weeding out of the unfit, the dross, the infirm, the excess baggage. None prosper unless all prosper. Nature is hard, and fair.   It's worked for billions of years!   Hayduke Speaks!                                 back