REVOLUTION OR EXTINCTION

Currently, there are only two options for the future of the Planet and all of its beings: an anti-technoindustrial revolution or absolute human extinction. Each one would come about in different ways and affect people differently. I shall explore some of them in the following paragraphs.

Beginning with the anti-technoindustrial revolution, it could entail a rapid change over a brief period, or it could be a revolutionary movement that would take a longer time to achieve the same goal: the destruction of all modern technology, the obliteration of industries, rewilding, and the development of small communities in a primitive setting.

Regardless of the methods used to achieve such goals, the number of persons alive would be significantly lowered, giving space for Nature to breathe. Mainly, people of the cities would struggle and have more difficulty surviving, especially if they have not put any effort into learning how to survive on their own. The people who decided to stay in cities that were, by then, destroyed beyond recognition, would suffer the most because of the disadvantage of not having land and fertile soil. They would depend on whatever food they could find within the remains of the cities, often leading to fights and killings over a bag of rice.

A well-coordinated revolution would target billionaires and technophiles before any other group of people who could be a danger to the movement itself and humanity’s future. The dirty rich would depend on their jets to reach their bunkers, which are mostly located in New Zealand. If chaos sets in before they reach their destination, they would be targeted individually. If they manage to successfully hide in their bunkers, it should be a goal for the revolutionaries to sabotage them from the outside if unable to penetrate the insides. Any entrances, exits, and hidden emergency vaults should be made unusable by using strong enough materials to block any chance of entry or exit. All bunkers should be assumed to be occupied.

People from the countryside would be more likely to survive, for there’d be more land for primitive permaculture to take place, easier access to animals, and facilitated creation of communities. Farmers who, nowadays, are overworked and poor, under the dominion of bosses who demand specific crops with little to no room for diversity, in the absence of these lords, the lands would be utilised for farmers’ needs and the needs of the community.

The primitive people of today would already be at a great advantage; little to no change to their lifestyles would be made. 

From the very start, all members of the revolution should have four points of understanding:

1. Communities should be kept small since one has the capacity to deal with a life shared with a maximum of 150 persons.

2. Current primitive tribes should not be interfered with, and their territory should be respected.

3. New primitive communities should be created in territories that are not occupied and are not too close to another tribe. Each community should have a vast amount of land to hunt, fish, and perhaps practice primitive permaculture.

4. Each community would have its own culture, its own tenets, its own initiation tests, its own system of dealing with those who stray from the proposed project from the very start. 

Any person attempting to keep any type of modern technology alive or actively working from scratch to bring it back should be sentenced to death. 

Sources for survival should be natural. The revolution is against modern technology and industrialism; if successful, many people shall fall without the aid of what the revolutionaries seek to destroy and abolish. Civilisation as it is. The mission, from an anthropocentric point of view, is to recover humanity.

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In the beginning, the revolution would bring in a lot of chaos, regardless of how well-organised every revolutionary group is, and how much they coordinate with each other, the fall of the civilisation would target not only industrialism and technology, but also the economic system.

If we only speak of human beings, the goal is to achieve worldwide tribalism. 

However, the revolution is far from being human-centric, since the techno-industrial society has been eliminating entire species mostly through its industrial activity, for example, with industrial agriculture.

Although veganism most often comes from a place of not wanting to do any harm to non-human animals, the push in this movement has created more significant deaths and extinctions due to the need to deforest and monopolise a field with one type of food, literally disrupting the ecosystem to the point it is uninhabitable by beings who belong there. They die if they depend on aspects of that system or are pushed into areas they are not inhabitants of, disrupting another ecosystem in the process. Many species have met their extinction due to agricultural practices.

All life is out of balance when one species is dominating every other.

The collapse of civilisation is inevitable, but how many species are we taking on our way back to humanity? The collapse is the only variable that keeps us from extinction; technology and industrialism harm human beings, too. We are victims of the side effects of the industrial-technological society on physical and psychological levels. Hopefully, we shall be aided by the revolution, which will guide us towards a healthier way of living in our natural habitats, respect the ecosystems that we encounter or benefit from, and keep up the attack on modern infrastructures. Everyone will have a role in the revolution. Without the aid of the revolution, life would still become far more primitive than what we are used to as of this moment. Our impact on other species and ecosystems would be minimised, and the impact on ourselves would also be lowered.

The only way civilisation can maintain itself from going extinct is by achieving an extreme form of transhumanistic worldview. The material body would be discarded as we plug ourselves into a virtual reality. The entire planet shall suffer so we can play escapism from life and death. Unfortunately, we have already taken steps towards transhumanism in minor ways, whilst modern technology has advanced far too rapidly, and industrialisation has reached the absurd. 

However, transhumanism is a dead end. ALL RESOURCES ARE FINITE. By attempting to reach its extreme form, humans would make themselves extinct due to the damage it would cause. By reaching it, they become extinct, for they are no longer material beings; they are reconstructions of neuropathways in robotic form.

The good news is that it is far more likely that the civilisation will fall and that through one point in our destruction of the Earth, we become extinct before we achieve any sort of humanity based entirely on transhumanism.