The story thus far...

“In the beginning, ” humans lived in the world in a multitude of sustainable cultures for approximately 3 million years. Our particular culture is about 10,000 years old. Born in the middle-east, it has been spreading outward ever since. It’s a totalitarian culture, with a special emphasis on agricultural totalitarianism. That means that all land, plants, and animals must be dedicated to producing food for human consumption. Any plants and animals competing for “our” land must be exterminated. (Thus hundreds of species are becoming extinct on a daily basis.) As we have spread outward, we have either destroyed or converted the cultures who’s territories we spread out into. To see what this process has looked like over the past 10,000 years, take a look at what happened when our culture finally spread out into North America a few hundred years ago.

Our culture is not sustainable. It won’t last. We are not separate from the Ecosystem. We are elements of it. We are consuming the Ecosystem into oblivion and filling it up with waste and toxification. Ergo, we are consuming ourselves into oblivion. It’s not complicated. It’s not mysterious. It’s happening. We’re doing it. Today. But not forever. It’ll probably come to an end in one of two ways:

1. We will continue thinking the way we think and consequently living the way we live until we finally achieve the destiny of our cultural Way of Life; total global ecocultural collapse, or,

2. We will begin thinking in new ways and consequently evolve a multitude of new ways of living in the world in sustainable manners.

Either way, our culture and our Way of Life won’t be around much longer. It can’t. How can it? It’s not sustainable. It’s self-eliminating.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know that. So what to do about it?”

Step 1: Change your mind.
Step 2: (Note: If you still have an un-changed mind, there’s no point in proceeding to step 2.)

I have a BA in Business Admin. 11 years of experience in the mental health field at the direct care and managerial level. 20 some credits in post-bach psychology. Now I'd like to go back to school.

I'd like to find a program where i could study intersection points between clinical psychology, ecological studies, mythology, and the ideas of Daniel Quinn. I'd like to make a career out of some combination of writing, teaching, and research.

How the hell am i gonna make that happen?!? We've got mucho debt, plus I haven't jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops that seem to be necessary to get into a psych program at the grad school level. Haven't been published, don't know any professors anymore to get a letter of recommendation, etc etc etc...

Ah well, let's see what happens.