An Open Letter on Biospheric Republicans

I am writing from a shade-shrouded picnic table at the 5th annual "Organic Islands Festival & Sustainability Expo" -- surrounding by the Right Wing of tomorrow, and the day after...

Bernard-Henri Levy's LEFT IN DARK TIMES seeks out the seeds of tomorrow's progressive Leftist politics but with little success. Where are they? I say they have been sublimated to that form of Right which is appropriate to the total planetary human sphere.

These people all around do not think they are Republicans. They imagine themselves as social progressives, oppposed to fundamentalism, moral hypocrisy, ethnic ideology and the compulse advocacy of oligarchic interests. Yet they are clearly pr

oponents of conservation, limited expenditure, farmer's protection, regional community spirit, natural law, localism -- and these are explicitly Conservative values. This is not a left/right issue but a competition between old Right and a new Right... between Rednecks & Green-necks.

The old Conservatives -- suffering toxicity & regressivism -- are hollow, collapsing like the American Republicans, but the new Social Progressives lack spirit and cedes all its force to a pragmatic centralism. One factors explains all sides of this situation: the emergence of planetary right-wing spirit. This erodes old school Conservatism and captures the instincts of a Liberalism that has not yet emerged.

Today's progressives have strayed into a hinterland between the sci-fi issues of tomorrow (A.I. sentience, cyborg rights, alternate bodies, extra-planetary colonialism) and the smouldering nostalgia for the militant egalitarianism of centuries past. This Left either dwells in socialist revivalism, scattered minority-rights lobbying, or hysterical critiques of fascism's tiny echoes in popular culture OR they are blurred out by the growing mass of sexually & emotionally relaxed, eco-planetary conservatives -- green-necks.

Love,

the next president of Honduras,

pascal.

PREPARE FOR A NEW IMPERIAL STYLE

As the combined political force of the human species emerges we must expect that it will make itself felt in a new imperial style. Despite the inevitable gains of democracy, diversity, free creative ease & systems complexity -- which tomorrow is pouring upon us -- we still look toward a global civilization whose style will be both newly unique and heir to the joint history of the last 8000 years.

Our slowly accumulating racial & cultural homogeneity, our expansive appetites which transgress geographic borders, our increasingly obvious need for honored planetary military forces, and the progressively sensed mass-strength of "The All-People" will accompany a new grand style of humanist, transcendent mass-political aesthetics which reflect the burden of unprecedented scales of governance and the irrestible allure of extra-planetary expansion.

RELIGION AS A RELIC OF NATIONALISM

Religion is the evocative memory traces of a human cultural field risen into a unique nation-spirit. Today there can be no honest and living nation-spirit other than "all of us, earthlings."

The Spirit of Terrestrial Patriotrism

Our planetary nationality is an organic machine that draws power from the natural patriotic loyalty of bodies to their Earth. The threat? -- Archaic, defunct & subhuman nationalisms.