By Nico Rahim

So you want to change the world?  Well, it can’t be done; it is beyond our control, but not beyond our influence.  What we can change is how we function within the world.  The common phrase “to change the world” exposes the ignorance in the collective ego of Western society.  Sure we can change global climate patterns, drive species into extinction, leave the land, air, and water toxic and radioactive, and exhaust natural resources to the point where our technological advancement will mean shit.  But, the only change in the world will be that it is uninhabitable for human beings.  Nature will wipe us out because of our misuse caused by our nearsightedness.  The Earth will continue on with altered yet ceaseless cycles until it crashes into the sun or is sucked into a neighboring blackhole. 

Let’s start with the premise that we can’t change the world, that we must play by its rules or else we will be forced to.  We see this through the rise of the oceans, the howl of the wind, the change in global climate systems, the mutation of viruses and bacteria to resist many modern pharmaceuticals, and the proliferation of cancer which seems to be the bi-product of our technological and economic progress. 

Earth, the global ecosystem, is the closest humanity can get to the Real for it predates and will outlive the Law of society.  It is the spatial-temporal constraint we find ourselves in and cannot break.  Within this Real humanity creates good and evil, as we are the creators of ethics and morality—the Real is amoral.