Technodammerung

[RhisiartGwilym]

‘Gotterdamerung’ - ‘The Twilight of the Gods’ - is the final catastrophe-laden work in Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle of four music-dramas: ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ - ‘The Ring of the Nibelungs’: a tradition-drawn, pre-Tolkien legend of the great rings of power. My apologies to Richard for mashing his word with my headline, but it just seemed too good a chance to miss.

I’m speaking of a new essay by John Michael Greer, which he titles: ‘Tomorroland Has Fallen’, in which he precognises the imminent fall from power of our current, past-sell-by-date ruling establishment: the technocratic managerial class. You know, all those over-confident uni-plankton Fergusoid berks who’ve been telling us what to think, and what to do, about the covid-flu scam (amongst everything else about which they feel especially qualified to lay down The Law). John offers a very persuasive explanation of why they’re all going so berserk: Displacement behaviour. As a ruling ‘elite’, their time is up; and deep down, they know it:

Tomorrowland Has Fallen!

[KarenEliot]

Great article, and I lurve Technodammerung, @RhisiartGwilym you do come up with some treats while taking the English language by the scruff of its neck

The best bit was the assertion that, in essence, managers are crap at running things. Never trust an expert, as the slithy Gove more or less said…

I like this way of putting it

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki.

By “empty” he meant in the Mahayana sense of not constricted by concepts/representations… Śūnyatā (shun-ya-tar approximate pronunciation).