Well, that time being of the essence (we're literally talking 30 years for some significant changes to take place) means that any rupture is going to be very violent and sobering. and I do think the kind of culture built up around psychedelia blinds people to this. this is why i like to listen to gabba and hard acid on psychedelics. i don't think revolution or conscious change of the species or planetary management or what have you is going to be an act of joy, it will be a buzzkill. 'it is defeat you must learn to prepare for' etc...
Yeah I don't think joy should be the focus tbh. It's too fleeting. That's a bad axis to put in the centre. And neither do I think the psychs should be the thing things revolve around. Reconnecting to things we lost during the industrial age would be a better focus imo. Also incorporating new things we've learned like the power of open communication.
I just finished this huge book about education and how it was reshaped by powerful business people at the turn of the 20th c in America and then shipped literally world wide. So many of societies ills are easily decoded with this knowledge. We've been led down the wrong path and it doesn't take psychs to turn around. They may speed it up. But as long as some 'get it' they can do the hard work for the rest. As I already said, things are moving in this direction already anyway.
But pacifism itself is a murderous ideology. if a serial killer threatens children and you refuse to act, then who becomes complicit?
Nobody said anything about that. I'm not a hippy. And it's not like I have a whole plan for society mapped out in my head. It's going to take a lot of work, talk, thinking.
I'm still leaning more toward we're fucked more than anything. But after the book I'm fuelled with some ideas for sparking some hope. In myself at least. Was needed