“It’s Already Too Late: Reflections at the End of the Decade” by Ian MacKenzie

The following is an excerpt. You can read the whole article here.

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We are being asked to bear witness to the ending of days.

Lest I find myself categorized immediately as a ‘doomist’, I wish to say up front that I am not suggesting hopelessness. I am agreeing, as Martin Shaw has said, that we are in the Underworld, though many aren’t willing to know it yet:

“We still get to go on holiday, drink wine, watch beautiful sunsets. We still pay insurance and kids still go to college. But there is something happening. An unravelling. A collapsing, both tacit and immense in scale.”

Modern society believes that to be human means to circumvent every limit that opposes us — ultimately seeing death as a biological flaw to be eliminated. Yet, indigenous cultures the world over know the law of life to be the exact opposite —as Stephen Jenkinson says in Lost Nation Road: “it is the limit that gives us the opportunity to practice being human.”

By eliminating endings we have triggered the end of everything else.

“We are right where we were headed all along.” — Catherine Ingram

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You can read the rest of the article here.